Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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It's as ditsy and delightful as ever - with charm enough to forgive it plenty.

January 18, 2011 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Time Out

Top Critic

...the final scene, a tender sequence that you can sop up with a sponge, but if you aren't moved by it you probably stick kittens with pins.

February 2, 2009 Full Review

Mark Bourne

Film.com

Top Critic

Out of the elusive, but curiously intoxicating Truman Capote fiction, scenarist George Axelrod has developed a surprisingly moving film, touched up into a stunningly visual motion picture.

May 22, 2008 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

This story of a party girl in love with a gigolo allows [director Blake] Edwards to create a very handsome film, with impeccable Technicolor photography by Franz Planer.

February 9, 2007 Full Review

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Taken as a shallow fairytale it has a certain charm.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

A completely unbelievable but wholly captivating flight into fancy composed of unequal dollops of comedy, romance, poignancy, funny colloquialisms and Manhattan's swankiest East Side areas captured in the loveliest of colors.

May 9, 2005 Full Review

A.H. Weiler

New York Times

Top Critic

...a captivating romantic comedy that lives up to its place as a classic of the genre.

November 18, 2012 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Audrey Hepburn gives one of her most stylish and iconic performances in this charming if slightly sentimental version of Truman Capote's famous novella.

April 2, 2011 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Well, the movie still looks very good, and you'd need a heart of stone not to love the cat.

January 20, 2011 Full Review

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

Blake Edwards's hymn to New York high style and high living with its charming heroine, along with her cat (called "Cat") and those wonderful Johnny Mercer Moon River lyrics, has hardly dated since its release.

January 20, 2011 Full Review

Tony Sloman

Radio Times

Its charms remain undiminished after five decades, despite Mickey Rooney's Mr Yunioshi...

December 27, 2010 Full Review

Neil Smith

Total Film

Fabulous, but lots of drinking and cigarettes.

December 22, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

An undeniably romantic tale of damaged goods finding love.

December 8, 2009 Full Review

Chris Laverty

Clothes on Film

Whatever it is, I just don't see the pizzazz in Holly Golightly's life.

March 5, 2009 Full Review | Comments (5)

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

When it comes to cinematic fashion and romance, perhaps none are more iconic than Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's.

January 25, 2009 Full Review

Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views

There is not one extra that stands equal to this film, and it feels like a hint of repackaging, but this disc comes down to the moments of the movie--like the cocktail party.

January 18, 2009 Full Review

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

...a more ordinary movie than I remembered, with its clunky bits and a story that seems to betray authorial intent. Holly Golightly is not about the conventional American dream of domestic paradise; she is about the American perquisite of reinvention

January 13, 2009 Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It's not one of my favorite films, but I can understand its appeal. (50th Anniversary Blu-ray edition)

January 7, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...the movie maintains a spirited bounce in its step that is still infectious today.

January 7, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Paramount's 'Centennial Collection' two-disc DVD set is a really nice package, right down to the eight page booklet containing some nice photos.

January 1, 2009 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

It's like getting two movies for the price of one %u2013 light romantic comedy and a relatively effective human drama at the same time.

January 1, 2009 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Enduringly enjoyable romantic comedy always worth a revisit. Tone and performances are delicately judged, and Hepburn is radiant throughout.

May 27, 2008 Full Review

Film4

• 1. Holly Golightly: You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. I must say, the mind reels.
  – Submitted by Adam O (45 days ago)
• 1. Mr. Yunioshi: Miss Gorightry!
  – Submitted by Adam O (45 days ago)
• 1. Holly Golightly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
  – Submitted by Adam O (45 days ago)
• 1. Holly Golightly: I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling, I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?
  – Submitted by Adam O (45 days ago)
• 1. Holly Golightly: I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other.
  – Submitted by Adam O (45 days ago)
• 1. Holly Golightly: How do I look?
  2. Paul Varjak: Very good. I must say, I'm amazed.
  – Submitted by Adam O (45 days ago)

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