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Breakfast on Pluto

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Ireland, United Kingdom · 2005
Rated R · 2h 8m
Director Neil Jordan
Starring Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan
Genre Drama, Comedy

Patrick "Kitten" Braden moves to London to search for her mother, and to live as a transgender woman, an identity that her hometown in Ireland doesn't accept.

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60

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Though he (Jordan) directs with admirable skill, his usual touches don't drive the film--which occasionally threatens to lose its shape.

100

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Jordan and McCabe's real triumph here, however, is the tenderness with which they imbues "Kitten," and the astonishing grace with which the extraordinary Murphy pulls it off.

75

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Thanks to Jordan's bravura storytelling, Breakfast on Pluto is one of very few movies this year truly worth remembering.

10

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

May be Jordan's wildest mis-shot yet, so dense with dying fizzle and limp ideas that I began to wonder if Jordan has an evil twin, or if there are in fact several Neil Jordans, among them at least one literate stylist and one humor-handicapped village idiot.

42

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Jordan lets slip virtually every rudiment of drama. He never deigns to develop his characters, he coats the movie in a wet blanket of whimsy, and he lets pop songs do his work for him more lavishly than Cameron Crowe did in "Elizabethtown."

75

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

In substance and style, the movie is more than a few tears short of Jordan's "The Crying Game." But Murphy is an actor to watch. Even in heels.

50

Variety by Todd McCarthy

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.

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