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  • 2005
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 8 m

Summary Director Neil 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. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Directed By: Neil Jordan

Written By: Pat McCabe, Neil Jordan

  • 2005
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 8 m

Breakfast on Pluto

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 36 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 24 User Ratings
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Summary Director Neil 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. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Directed By: Neil Jordan

Written By: Pat McCabe, Neil Jordan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 36 Critic Reviews
59
56% Positive
20 Reviews
36% Mixed
13 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews

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Mixed or Average Based on 36 Critic Reviews
59
56% Positive
20 Reviews
36% Mixed
13 Reviews
8% Negative
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100
Playful, poetic, shocking, saddening, and ultimately gratifyingly and honestly big-hearted.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
It is the central performance that holds us. Cillian Murphy glows.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 24 User Ratings
6.5
71% Positive
17 Ratings
17% Mixed
4 Ratings
13% Negative
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13% Negative
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75
Cillian Murphy plays a hyper-feminine transvestite who spends much of the movie traipsing about an increasingly violent landscape in search of his long lost mother. His whirligig encounters, political and sexual, rarely soar.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
63
However great Murphy is in this film, even greater is Liam Neeson as Father Bernard.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
60
Though he (Jordan) directs with admirable skill, his usual touches don't drive the film--which occasionally threatens to lose its shape.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
50
Cross-dressing and the Irish Troubles don't mix well in Neil Jordan's cloying, fanciful Breakfast on Pluto.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
10
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.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Pathé Pictures International, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, Parallel Film Productions, Number 9 Films
Release Date Nov 16, 2005
Duration 2 h 8 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Same world, different planet!
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 4 Wins & 11 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 2 Nominations

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