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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 6

It contains some ugly anachronisms, but Blake Edwards is at his funniest in this iconic classic, and Audrey Hepburn absolutely lights up the screen.

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0

It contains some ugly anachronisms, but Blake Edwards is at his funniest in this iconic classic, and Audrey Hepburn absolutely lights up the screen.

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Movie Info

In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on expensive dates and at high-class

Unrated,

Drama, Romance, Classics, Comedy

Truman Capote, George Axelrod

Sep 21, 1999

Paramount Pictures

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All Critics (50) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (7) | DVD (32)

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

January 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out
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...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 Source: Film.com
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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 Source: Variety
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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 Source: Chicago Reader
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Taken as a shallow fairytale it has a certain charm.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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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 Source: New York Times
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...a captivating romantic comedy that lives up to its place as a classic of the genre.

November 18, 2012 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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 Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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 Source: Guardian [UK]
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 Source: Radio Times
Radio Times

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

December 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

Fabulous, but lots of drinking and cigarettes.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

An undeniably romantic tale of damaged goods finding love.

December 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Clothes on Film
Clothes on Film

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

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comments (5)
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 Source: 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 Source: The Scorecard Review
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 Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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 Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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

January 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
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 Source: Apollo Guide
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 Source: Apollo Guide
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 Source: Film4
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Audience Reviews for Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast At Tiffany's is a timeless charming classic starring timeless beauty and style icon Audrey Hepburn. Beautiful and beloved musical score Henry Mancini's Moon River.
September 10, 2011
Jan Marc Macababayao

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A classic and one of my all time favourite films!
June 23, 2011
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    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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