Set in the 1970's, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy), an endearing, but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that he is different, Patrick survives this harsh environment with the aid of his wit and charm, plus a sweet refusal to let anyone and anything change who he is. Jordan weaves a wonderfully surreal and magical tale to bring us this funny, moving and poignant rites of passage account of a young man enduring the trials and tribulations he faces with a smile and unwavering faith in the inherent goodness in us all.
Film Crew
- : Neil Jordan
- : Neil Jordan
- : Pat McCabe
- : Robert Quinn
- : Mark Auguste
- : Anna Jordan
- : Tony Lawson
- : Susan Mullen
- : Mark Woods
- : Cameron McCracken
- : Brendan McCarthy
- : François Ivernel
- : Stephen Woolley
- : Neil Jordan
- : Alan Moloney
- : Patrick Condren
- : Anthony Condren
- : Tom Conroy
- : Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
- : Declan Quinn
- : Pat McCabe
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- Color
- English
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Patrick is a transgender foundling growing up in 1970s Ireland who ventures over to London in a bid to find his birth mother...and have some fun along the way.-
"Breakfast on Pluto" proposes a kind of radical disengagement from the mad, mad world: a fiercely willed, stubbornly held innocence that in the end stands as its own reward.
Stephen Holden, The New York Times -
Passionately played by Murphy, wittily scripted by Jordan and McCabe and well-constructed, this is a novel, wayward, endearing film.
Film 4 -
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.
Richard Mellor, Eye For Film
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