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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 CriticCillian Murphy makes an uncomfortably beautiful woman in this rambling tale that never congeals.
The overall film lacks a sense of urgency, as if Patrick had all the time in the world to get where he's going.
So dense with dying fizzle and limp ideas that I began to wonder if Jordan has an evil twin, or if there are in fact several Neil Jordans, among them at least one literate stylist and one humor-handicapped village idiot.
A fizzy tonic amidst stiller holiday fare.
A lilting fairy tale told with feverish brilliance.
The whimsy is so forced, a half-dozen Mitzi Gaynor references occur during the first 15 minutes.
Too shy to reveal anything meaningful.
The twittering main character quickly wears out his welcome.
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.
Jordan is the kind of director you follow out of trust, even when his movies aren't perfect.
The film does not shy away from the chaos or the madness available, but you could see a love letter to Ireland in Kitten’s indomitable spirit. It’s a letter you’ll enjoy reading.
Starts out difficult to like but pays off with hard-won sympathy for a showboating hero/heroine.
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"
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.
There's so much good stuff in here you'll wish it all fit together somehow.
There’s a thin line between innocence and willful ignorance. Breakfast on Pluto stomps all over it.
Murphy models his frocks comfortably enough, but 'Pluto is draggy in other, disappointing ways.
Neil Jordan gives us another gender bending gem that plays something like Velvet Goldmine with guns and explosions.
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