a alan rudolph breakfast of champion slide into theater with little fanfare and much derision it make me think back to 1996 when keith gordon mother night come out . now for all the talk of kurt vonnegut be unfilmable it surprising that he have get two superb cinematic treatment ( the other be slaughter house five ) . mother night be certainly one of the most underappreciated film of the decade and i can not understand why . it brilliant . it stay almost entirely faithful to vonnegut book ( without be stilted or overly literary ) and add to it a poetry that be purely cinematic . how many film adaptation of any author work can claim that . vonnegut himself even put in a cameo appearance towards the end of the film and and can you ask for a good endorsement than that . not only be it a beautiful film and it be a beautifully act and write and direct film and it be among my pick for the top five or so american film of the 1990s . it a mournful and inspired and surreal masterpiece that do not deserve to be neglect . i would sincerely encourage anyone to see mother night it doesn not even take a familiarity with vonnegut work to fully appreciate it ( a slaughter house five sometimes do ) . it be a powerful and affect piece of cinema .