Breakfast on Pluto | 
 enlarge | Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones (iii), Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Mary Coughlan
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 36724
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 129
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD11714D
UPC: 043396117143
EAN: 0043396117143
ASIN: B000EHRVOM
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: April 18, 2006
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Product Description
Set in the 1970s amidst the british-irish conflicts this follows the journey of self-discovery of a young man who realizes at a young age that he is different. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/25/2008 Starring: Cillian Murphy Brendan Gleeson Run time: 129 minutes Rating: R
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Both epic and intimate, Breakfast on Pluto uses the life of Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Cillian Murphy, Batman Begins), a queer orphan boy, to explore the hidden worlds that lie beneath so-called "normal" society--the subcultures of homosexuals, the Irish Republican Army, and prostitutes. At odds with his conservative Irish town, Patrick rebels with the fearlessness of someone whose life feels worthless. When he leaves for London, where he hopes to find his mother, he joins a touring rock band, is almost murdered, becomes assistant to a magician (Stephen Rea, The Crying Game), is arrested as an IRA terrorist, and joins a peep show--and those are only half of the markers on his odyssey (the movie struggles to encompass the novel by Patrick McCabe). Though the first half of the movie feel almost weightless in the headlong rush of events, a rich emotional heft sneaks up on you; by the end, Breakfast on Pluto has become almost unbearably sad and wonderfully buoyant. Murphy's superb performance is both delicate and willful, ably supported by an excellent cast, including Liam Neeson (Kinsey), Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), and Ian Hart (Backbeat), as well as rock stars Gavin Friday and Bryan Ferry (who has a particularly creepy cameo as a serial killer). --Bret Fetzer
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Stange, but wonderful movie August 7, 2008
if you are a chap like myself, who enjoy movies that bit more open mind, One would enjoy this movie, if your not anti-gay. This ownderful moving movie that it worht the money you pay. It is well done and wonderful irish movie at that.
 wonderfully not average May 4, 2008
I thought I might be taking a chance on "Breakfast On Pluto" but was completely delighted by the depth and richness of the story and characters, enhanced all the more by it's warm, glittery, soulful 70s soundtrack. Cillian is fantastic as Kitten. Superbly performed character. Very refreshing to hear and see such an unusual and well-crafted, well-produced dramedy. The title track sets the tone perfectly.
Light as a Feather, Serious at Heart November 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Breakfast on Pluto," (2004),another triumph from Irish director Neil Jordan, was made with support from both the Irish, and Northern Irish film boards. It has a light, jokey style, plenty of wit, and a sound track that refracts ironically from the action. And then there are those robins, slurping up the cream from the milk bottles, commenting on the human action around them, and quoting --gay--Anglo-Irish humorist/playwright Oscar Wilde. But at its heart,this film couldn't be more serious.
The movie was based on a best-selling, raucous novel by Patrick Mc Cabe; Mc Cabe and Jordan wrote the film script. It was filmed on location, in the lovely countryside of Co. Kilkenny, and London. It's set during the swinging late 1960's/ early 70s of that city, a period that, in addition to nifty clothes and cars, also, unfortunately, saw a lot of Irish Republican Army terrorist activity.
The gorgeous Cillian Murphy stars -- if you think he's cute as a boy, you ought to see him as a girl. He gives a remarkable performance as Patrick Braden, who prefers to be known as Kitten, and has a way with a sewing machine. He really deserved at least an Oscar nomination for this job, but had to settle for a Golden Globe nomination. Patrick is a foundling, left in a basket on the doorstep of the local church, where Liam Neeson plays the Father Liam, the priest who finds him and quite likely fathered him. Or so the village, and the robins think, on his lovely young one-time housekeeper, said to resemble the American actress Mitzi Gaynor. Braden's stepmother, Mrs. Braden, is played by Ruth Mc Cabe, who has pretty much grown up on camera. Author of the book, Patrick Mc Cabe, plays one of the boy Patrick's less than-happy-with-the-boy school teachers: for it seems that nobody can keep young Patrick out of girl's clothes and makeup.
Well, eventually young Patrick must leave the charming village of his birth, of course, and start making his way to London, to which his mother is supposed to have fled. On his way, he tarries briefly with popular Irish entertainer Gavin Friday, playing Billy Hatchett,a gay local rock star. In London, he'll run across real rock star Bryan Ferry, playing Mr. Silky String,a serial killer; Brendan Gleeson as John Joe Kenny, an entertainment park performer; the very talented Ian Hart as a P.C. Wallis, and the Irish actor Stephen Rea as Bertie,a mediocre magician who gets attached to Patrick(Kitten) Brady. Kitten Brady will have many adventures in London, some good, some heart-breaking; he will face them all with sweet-tempered equanimity, eventually find his birth mother, and realize she has created a life for herself in which there's no room for him.
Jordan, as is well-known, has frequently worked with Neeson, Gleeson, and Rea, and that shows in the fine performances these stalwarts give him. It's been said that the director's pictures are generally about men who find themselves in love with inappropriate love objects, and you'd have to say "Breakfast" fits that mode: Neeson gives us a priest who really appears to have loved his housekeeper, rather than just lusted after her. But no matter: in an Irish village of the 1960's-70's they can have no permanent relationship. Happily for him, however, he comes to realize that, while it may not be popularly approved, he can manage a relationship with his son.
breakfast on pluto August 3, 2007
luminous- thats one of the words I'd use to describe Cillian Murphy's performance here- this movie is not for the faint of heart- but if you enjoy Cillian Murphy- this performance should not be missed!
Head trip movie about ... What is it about anyway? July 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My first thought in the opening minutes of this movie was "Damn, Cillian Murphy makes one FINE looking woman." Seeing him sashaying down the street in his make up and vintage finery made me think of the kinder, gentler drag queens like Tootsie or those in The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane rather than the harsher, campier ones as featured in a John Waters film. It set the tone for this rather odd movie, and left me thinking there was just as much learned as their was to be confused.
Our Kitten comes into the word as an orphan boy left on the backsteps of a church in a small Irish town. Here he is found by the local parish priest and adopted into a family. It's clear from the beginning that he is not like other boys, and his small town, stanch Irish Catholic family doesn't know what to do with him. Eventually, Kitten leaves his hometown for London, in a quest for both freedom as well as to somehow find his birth mother. What unfolds is a really, really, odd chain of events. He joins a band, is mistakenly arrested as being a member of the IRA, clashes with a variety of people, and looks into the sleazy side of life.
I saw this movie as more of a train of thought rather than a substantial story. It was some fun, some horror, some smut, and some ugliness. In short, that's what life is really all about. And it has a happy ending, where Kitten finds a family. That's all he ever really wanted anyway.
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