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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:63
Rotten:49
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Well-acted if monotonous drama about a transvestite prostitute in London during the 1970s.
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Laurence Kinlan, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
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.
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Top CriticMurphy'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.
Murphy has played two deliciously perverse villains this year, and it’s a measure of how amazing he is as Kitten that I never once thought of those earlier antagonists.
[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.
A lilting fairy tale told with feverish brilliance.
It seems like a simple movie, but it means more the more you think about it.
It's a film in and of its own world, sparked by a wicked performance full of wide-eyed wonder.
As played by Murphy in what is an excellent performance, Kitten is sort of like a transvestite superhero--able to overcome impossible situations and look fabulous while doing it.
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You'll be singing along to the soundtrack of Neil Jordan's enchanting Breakfast on Pluto, which boasts the most felicitous use of wall-to-wall pop songs I've ever heard.
Watching Cillian Murphy in drag takes some patience and tolerance but it's actually quite a touching story
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.
Neil Jordan gives us another gender bending gem that plays something like Velvet Goldmine with guns and explosions.
It does one of the best things a movie can do: It makes you feel good.
This is not for everyone, Jordan's stuff never is, but if you're into good acting it's worth a look.
Celebratory subversion
Pure blarney, but it's well-meaning blarney, told by a master cinematic storyteller and boasting an eye-catching lead performance.
An endearing portrait of a transvestite whose playful ease in the face of one harrowing experience after another makes him into what the Taoist sages call "a disciple of life"
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