first off: i'm a huge vonnegut fan. i remember hearing that they were going to make a movie from breakfast of champions and thinking that it could never be done. the plot of the novel is secondary to vonnegut's rants on modern america and without his narration the plot falls completely flat. this is exactly what happened with the movie. please don't be turned off to the novel because of the film, it is one of the funniest books out there. the movie is very non-sensical and leaves out the suicide of hoover's wife which is really what sets him off. i was very frustrated with this adaptation, they should have just left it alone.