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Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name , written by Patrick McCabe , as adapted by Jordan and McCabe. The film stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender woman foundling searching for love and for her long-lost mother, in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.
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Director Producer Screenplay Based on the original novel Director of Photography Film Editor Production Designer Costume Designer Casting Director First Assistant Director Production Manager Production Sound Mixer Supervising Location Mgr. Supervising Sound Editor Stills Photographer Re-Recording Mixer Neil Jordan Alan Moloney Neil Jordan ...
For all the tumult of Patrick’s life, “Breakfast on Pluto” is darkly funny. “The events of the film are like tragedy, but the central character turns it into a comic reality,” says Jordan. “It’s a thing that comes out of the Irish storytelling tradition; when Sean O’Casey first wrote his plays they hadn’t got a word for them, they were neither comi...
Despite the presence of political themes in many of Jordan’s films, he doesn’t necessarily see politics as central. “Look, I spent my twenties in Dublin and London. The fact that there was political violence in Ireland was like a blight on everybody’s life. What interests me is how individuals work with what they’ve been given. But even though the...
From the treacly melodrama of Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey” (Kitten’s theme song about a bereft young widower mourning his lost bride), to a stirring Handel chorale, to disco and punk, music is a powerful force in “Breakfast on Pluto.” “In a way, Patrick saw the whole world through songs, didn’t he?” says Neil Jordan, who chose the soundtrack sel...
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2hr 9 min. •. There are no inadequacies. Set in the 1970s, amidst the British-Irish conflicts, this touching and funny film follows the journey of self-discovery of a young man who realizes at a very young age that he is different. Stream Breakfast on Pluto free and on-demand with Pluto TV. Free Movies & TV Shows. Stream now.
Breakfast on Pluto: Black comedy drama, starring Cillian Murphy. Breakfast on Pluto airs on RTE2 +1 at 1:55 AM, Sunday 28 July. Black comedy drama, starring Cillian Murphy
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO. Drama. Set in the 1970s amidst the eruption of British-Irish conflicts, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO is an "enchanting, poignant, picaresque" (Michael Koresky, Interview Magazine) film from Oscar®-winning director Neil Jordan (1993, The Crying Game, Best Writing; The End of an Affair) that stars 2006 Golden Globe®-nominee Cilian ...
COMEDY. A Vibrant black comedy from Neil Jordan, the award winning director of The Crying Games. Set in the 70's, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy), an endearing, witty, clever and deceptively tough young man, who has a penchant for dressing as a woman. With an astounding performance from Cillian Murphy ...
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Set in the 1970s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden, an endearing, witty, clever and deceptively tough young transvestite. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown, Patrick is aware from a very early age that he has been born into the wrong body. He survives this harsh environment with the aid of his wit and charm ...
