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Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 114
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 50

Well-acted if monotonous drama about a transvestite prostitute in London during the 1970s.

48

Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 15

Well-acted if monotonous drama about a transvestite prostitute in London during the 1970s.

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73

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 84,814

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Movie Info

An Irish boy becomes an emotional and sexual outcast as the 1960s fade into the 1970s in this period drama from director Neil Jordan. When he was just a baby in the early '60s, Patrick Braden (Conor McEvoy) was abandoned by his mother and left on the doorstep of a church overseen by Father Bernard (Liam Neeson). Placed in a foster home, sensitive Patrick doesn't much care for the emotionally chilly attitude of his new "family," and psychologically buffers himself against the world by writing

R, 2 hr. 9 min.

Drama, Comedy

Apr 18, 2006

$0.8M

Sony Pictures Classics

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Critic Reviews for Breakfast on Pluto

All Critics (128) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (51) | DVD (14)

The film is downright aggravating.

January 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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Breakfast on Pluto may seem a fairy tale at times (no pun intended), but this Kitten has claws.

January 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Like Kitten and everything else about Breakfast on Pluto, it's altogether too overstated and obvious, but at least it doesn't pretend to have any significance whatsoever.

January 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.

January 5, 2006 Comment
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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.

January 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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... ambitious and endlessly intriguing ...

December 27, 2005 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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Rambling romance about a man truely in love with himself. Cilian Murphy has great talent, but not in this loser directed by Neil Jordan. My advice to Murphy...speak up and stop mumbling.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio | Comment (1)
Paul Chambers
CNNRadio

Celebratory subversion

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

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.

July 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

(...) Como buena fábula ambientada en el Londres de los '70, no pueden faltar el glam rock, los pantalones Oxford y la violencia del IRA.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | Comment
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

This is a long film that audiences will either love or dismiss.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

Roaring with real life, Breakfast on Pluto belongs in that treasured subgenre, the gender bending memoir ...Cillian Murphy gives a career high performance as Kitten, so silky, so tough, so completely real that it haunts us.

August 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

Moderately entertaining fare.

July 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Make your way toward Pluto and don't forget your bottle of Chanel No. 5!

April 19, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Keith Uhlich
Slant Magazine

It may not have the epic scope and complexity of Forrest Gump, but Breakfast on Pluto a small gem.

April 18, 2006 Comment
James Plath
Reel.com
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An orphaned transvestite navigates associations with the IRA and the search for his birth mother.Aside from the chameleon performance by Cillian Murphy as Kitten, there is very little to like about this film. The story is a very basic tale about separation and coming of age that, when it doesn't wreak of cliche,

November 13, 2011
hunterjt13
Jim Hunter

Super Reviewer

Like Patrick McCabe's novel, Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto" is episodic and fragmented. I did enjoy the way Jordan moves his camera and Cillian Murphy is committed to bringing Patrick Braden to life, but it's far too little to save the film. I found this unengaging and emotionally schizophrenic, a combination that

April 13, 2011
stevenecarrier
Steven Carrier

Super Reviewer

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