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Movie Profile
Breakfast on Pluto
2005 ยท Ireland - Neil Jordan
A glamorously made-up Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Cillian Murphy) pushing a baby in a pram and flirting insouciantly with construction workers, introduces her life story. Intricately plotted, the film is divided into over 30 brief chapters, each titled onscreen and written in the voice of main character, who is often shown writing autobiographically-inspired fiction within the film.
Genres:
Comedy, Drama
Release date:
2005-11-16
External links:
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Rotten Tomatoes
20 Critic reviews
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Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
April 25, 2007 read full article
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Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
October 07, 2006 read full article
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Arizona Republic
January 07, 2006 read full article
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Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
The film is downright aggravating.
January 06, 2006 read full article
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Tom Long
Detroit News
Breakfast on Pluto may seem a fairy tale at times (no pun intended), but this Kitten has claws.
January 06, 2006 read full article
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Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
Like Kitten and everything else about Breakfast on Pluto, it's altogether too overstated and obvious, but at least it doesn't pretend to have any significance whatsoever.
January 06, 2006 read full article
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Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.
January 05, 2006 read full article
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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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.
January 01, 2006 read full article
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Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
... ambitious and endlessly intriguing ...
December 27, 2005 read full article
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Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
If you're in the mood for an edgy, raucous, music-driven gender-bender, rent Hedwig and the Angry Inch instead.
December 27, 2005 read full article
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Michael Booth
Denver Post
Jordan is the kind of director you follow out of trust, even when his movies aren't perfect.
December 27, 2005 read full article
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Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
[T]he performance by Cillian Murphy ... is terrific.
December 27, 2005 read full article
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Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
Breakfast on Pluto ambles along nicely, but feels as if it's never going to end.
December 24, 2005 read full article
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Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
It's a film in and of its own world, sparked by a wicked performance full of wide-eyed wonder.
December 24, 2005 read full article
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Susan Walker
Toronto Star
A cunningly crafted fairytale ...
December 24, 2005 read full article
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Enchanting and hopeful.
December 22, 2005 read full article
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Desson Thomson
Washington Post
Ultimately, the film's detachment is its inspired idea and its inherent problem.
December 22, 2005 read full article
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Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
We're handed 36 separate chapters in the life of an androgynous sunbeam, but the whimsy is like a piece of caramel lodged between two of your back teeth: a sweet irritant.
December 22, 2005 read full article
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David Edelstein
Slate
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.
December 08, 2005 read full article
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Ebert & Roeper
December 06, 2005 read full article
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