Breakfast on Pluto R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 18, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 85,988
[With] a zany, lurching momentum and vitality....The sweetness works in a delightfully subversive way.
New York Times
Nov 16, 2005
Jordan is an accomplished filmmaker, and there are striking images and effective scenes...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Nov 1, 2005
Sadly, Kitten himself is the sort you'd be happy to string across a tennis racket, and the film never quite copes with his lethal insufferability. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
Declan Quinn's cinematography is suitably lush, with bright blood reds and luminescent greens echoing Patrick's garishly provocative sartorial sensibilities...
Sight and Sound
Jan 1, 2006
Rating: B+ -- Perhaps too audacious for some and too coy for others, Breakfast on Pluto is one of those mercurial movies where you really have no idea where it'll take you next. Like its star, it's smart, mischievous and fearless.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan 1, 2006
Murphy's turn as the irrepressible Kitten is simply mesmerising - outrageous, tender and full of the sort of deep pain that no amount of make-up can conceal. Full Review
Eye for Film
Jul 2, 2007
3 stars out of 5 -- Director Neil Jordan and Murphy are endearingly earnest in their belief in the material....Whimsical...
Total Film
Jul 1, 2006

Product Description:

Reuniting with writer Patrick McCabe, who co-scripted his acclaimed 1997 film THE BUTCHER BOY, Neil Jordan delivers another entertaining spectacle of a motion picture. Set in the United Kingdom during the tumultuous 1960s and ‘70s, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tells the story of Patrick "Kitten" Braden (an electrifying Cillian Murphy), an orphan from a small Irish town who dreams of escaping his drab surroundings. Though his orphan status is enough to make him an outsider, Patrick's gleeful decision to become the cross-dressing Androgynous Kitten sends him into the outside world for good. He ends up at the trailer home of traveling musician Billy Rock (Gavin Friday), who is hiding weapons used by the IRA in a series of vicious attacks. After an unexpected tragedy, Kitten says farewell to Ireland and heads for the glamorous, rough-and-tumble streets of London, where she faces hatred and hardship in equal measure. Through it all, Kitten somehow retains her unwavering spirit, teaching a valuable lesson about staying hopeful and optimistic in the face of harsh degradation.

Murphy's portrayal of the fiercely flamboyant Kitten is a sight to behold. Beautiful as a man, Murphy's appearance takes on an even more ethereal glow as a woman. Adding greater weight to the proceedings are the performances from Jordan regulars Liam Neeson and Stephen Rea, as well as Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan, and real-life musician Friday. Filled with a staggering amount of great pop songs from that legendary era, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO is an inspiring ode to individual human spirit.

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  • UPC: 043396117143
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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