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'Breakfast of Champions,' Forgotten Bruce Willis Movie, Gets New Life

Writer/director Alan Rudolph on the 25th anniversary restoration of 'Breakfast of Champions' and working with Bruce Willis and Robert Altman.

25 years ago, writer/director Alan Rudolph realized a decades-long dream when he finally got to make his adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut ‘s “ Breakfast of Champions ” with a cast that included Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney, and Barbara Hershey, all operating at the peak of their talents. Indeed, Willis’ portrayal of Hoover and Finney’s performance as the nonsensical literary guru to whom he looks for answers capture and predict a kind of cultural insanity that makes “Breakfast of Champions” almost as much a horror film as it is a comedy, depending on one’s perspective. Seeing “Breakfast of Champions” in its new restoration is a reminder of what a vital voice Rudolph used to be in American cinema as the craftsman behind handmade, idiosyncratic and beautiful films like “Choose Me,” “Trouble in Mind,” “Mrs.

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