SnoopyStyle Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) owns a car dealership in Midland City. He's on his own commercials, married to Celia (Barbara Hershey) and is suicidal. Francine Pefko (Glenne Headly) is his secretary. His sales manager Harry Le Sabre (Nick Nolte) is just as crazy behind closed doors with his wife Grace (Vicki Lewis). Wayne Hoobler (Omar Epps) gets out of prison vowing to work for the similarly-named Dwayne Hoover. Reclusive Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney) is invited to a local arts festival.It's loud. It's crazy. It's ugly. It's incoherent. It's messy. I would rate this lower but this is done deliberately. I give it credit for its audacity. I think it might work better if Alan Rudolph is a better visual director. I'm willing to go with the craziness but this is too tough to watch.

MARIO GAUCI This is the other Kurt Vonnegut Jr. adaptation I watched in tribute to his passing: basically, it offers the same moral as SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (1972) - which, at least, shows a consistency within the author's work. The film's general tone is a surreal one, and its satire on media and the business world (where everyone demonstrates a slick and confident veneer but is actually suffering from various hang-ups) is generally interesting and occasionally amusing, but also chaotic and somewhat heavy-handed. A good cast tries hard - Bruce Willis (in yet another attempt at a dramatic role as a man who has everything but sees no point to his life), Albert Finney (as the ageing unappreciated writer, whose work has only ever been published in porn magazines, suddenly exalted to the status of a philosopher) and especially Nick Nolte (as a cross-dressing executive). I seem to recall that this film was barely released and got universally panned by critics at the time but it's hardly a catastrophe; there is also a nicely animated credit sequence and the playful score helps smooth over some of the film's rougher patches.

ToplessHarry001 Great movie... No surprise I guess that I'm a big fan of Vonnegut... A writer with the guts to write in an unashamedly cartoon-like, un-politically correct and honest manner, which I personally dig. The take on Harry LeSabre's cross dressing tendencies (the scene with Wayne Hoobler in Harry's office is priceless), Dwayne Hoover's erratic mood swings and the need for Bunny Hoover and his mum to actually be noticed by the main man of the Exit 11 Motor Village were all acted out with tasty character acting skill and delivered with true gusto and appreciation for the material and it's source. Also, the portrayal of the 'cult' of Kilgore Trout (check out the awesome landscape cinematography behind Kilgore's Sci-Fi ramblings), it's followers and all the other reoccurring characters in Vonneguts's Novels, not to mention those hauntingly surreal mirror sequences in the most unlikely of places were simply beautiful...I first saw this movie in the Phillipines with a packed house. I don't know whether whether I was laughing harder at the movie or more at the disgust of the people watching it... I think they saw the R Rating and Bruce Willis's name and figured they were in for some good old Bruce Willis knock em' dead action with a bit of Hollywood sex mixed in for good measure... However by the time Dwayne Hoover was engaged somewhat romantically with his Secretary in the Holiday Inn honeymoon suite the entire theater was empty save for myself and one man who hadn't yet finished his bucket of fried chicken... I guess some people just don't appreciate the combination of middle-aged water bed sex and unruly comb-overs?? This movie wasn't made for everybody, but so what... I think it had to be made this way... It's a testament to a somewhat bizarre, original and funny writer... Personally I really can't fault it... The acting, direction and soundtrack are wonderful... I'd never been so moved by such a corny old song as 'Stranger in Paradise' before I'd seen this film. As they they, it's all in the delivery... As a music producer and part-time sound-tracker I look up to these sort of works with awe... It's about time we stop worshiping actors to the nth degree and start celebrating storytellers once more...Well done Alan Rudolph and Co. Well done world... Makes me happy to be a part of it... And remember, it's all life until you die ;))

mrcaw1 If you go for the more wacky Coen Brothers movies, if you enjoyed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, if Ed Wood is a hero of yours and John Waters films feel like home movies then you're sure to enjoy this SCTV like nutcase of a movie. Bruce Willis turns in his most outrageous film presentation as our hero car salesman Dwayne Hoover having the crackup of a lifetime and through it all his Exit 11 Care Sale tv commercials keep broadcasting over and over and over and over. Hallucinations ,crossdressing, pill popping it's all part of life in Midland City. Costarring, Nick Nolte, Owen Wilson, Glenne Headly, Barbara Hershey & Albert Finney.