Breakfast On Pluto
Patrick leaves home and falls in with a rock singer before leaving Ireland to look for his real mother. His nonchalant nature sees him float through a scrapbook of experiences, troubles and unconventional jobs in the politically charged, swinging 60s/70s London. Director Jordan (famous for THAT scene in 'The Crying Game') depicts the story in a fanciful, surreal fashion.
- Director:
- Neil Jordan (The od Thief, The Butcher Boy, The Crying Game, Interview With A Vampire, The End Of The Affair)
- Writer:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Cillian MurphyLiam NeesonRuth NeggaLaurence KinlanIan Hart
Reviews & comments
OUT THERE, BUT WHO CARES?
Cillian Murphy portrays a damaged young man who has adopted outrageous fantasy as his method of dealing with the harsh world in which he finds himself. Unfortunately for the movie (and in real life), the self-absoption and shallowness are as about engaging as the behaviour itself...
Variety
pressNeil Jordan revisits the central concerns of "The Crying Game" -- sexual identity and Despite numerous surface pleasures, including a beguiling pop soundtrack and presence of rising star Cillian Murphy in the lead role, dramatic shortcomings spell a mixed overall reception...
Roger Ebert
pressThe movie is like a Dickens novel in which the hero moves through the underskirts of society, encountering one colorful character after another... "Breakfast on Pluto" tells the story of an Irish orphan, left on the steps of a priest's rectory and raised by a strict foster mother. Patrick discovers his identity at an early age. One day the woman finds him trying on her dresses and shoes...
Premiere Magazine
pressPlayful, poetic, shocking, saddening, and ultimately gratifyingly and honestly big-hearted...
BBC
pressLike Cillian Murphy in high heels, Breakfast On Pluto totters along with unnerving hesitancy. Writer/director Neil Jordan uses transvestism as a byword for quirky, but he ventures too far off the beaten track without a compelling story to carry him through. He has made a few inspired changes to the rites-of-passage novel by Pat McCabe about an Irish transvestite living in up in 70s London. But for every moment that glitters there are ten others that don't...
Variety
pressNeil Jordan revisits the central concerns of "The Crying Game" -- sexual identity and Despite numerous surface pleasures, including a beguiling pop soundtrack and presence of rising star Cillian Murphy in the lead role, dramatic shortcomings spell a mixed overall reception...
Roger Ebert
pressThe movie is like a Dickens novel in which the hero moves through the underskirts of society, encountering one colorful character after another... "Breakfast on Pluto" tells the story of an Irish orphan, left on the steps of a priest's rectory and raised by a strict foster mother. Patrick discovers his identity at an early age. One day the woman finds him trying on her dresses and shoes...
Premiere Magazine
pressPlayful, poetic, shocking, saddening, and ultimately gratifyingly and honestly big-hearted...
BBC
pressLike Cillian Murphy in high heels, Breakfast On Pluto totters along with unnerving hesitancy. Writer/director Neil Jordan uses transvestism as a byword for quirky, but he ventures too far off the beaten track without a compelling story to carry him through. He has made a few inspired changes to the rites-of-passage novel by Pat McCabe about an Irish transvestite living in up in 70s London. But for every moment that glitters there are ten others that don't...
OUT THERE, BUT WHO CARES?
Cillian Murphy portrays a damaged young man who has adopted outrageous fantasy as his method of dealing with the harsh world in which he finds himself. Unfortunately for the movie (and in real life), the self-absoption and shallowness are as about engaging as the behaviour itself...
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