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Mood:
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- Couple RelationsFall in LoveLove AffairLove TriangleSocial DifferencesHaunted By the PastLove and RomanceCouples more...
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- ComedyRomance
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- 20th Century60s
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- New YorkUrban
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- Date NightGirls' Night
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Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961
English, Portuguese
USA
Profile of Breakfast at Tiffany's
The mood of Breakfast at Tiffany's is sentimental, feel good, and humorous. The plot centers around social differences, a love triangle, and being haunted by the past. It is a comedy and romance movie. In approach, Breakfast at Tiffany's is realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Breakfast at Tiffany's is set in New York. It happens in the 1960s. The musical score is jazz. Breakfast at Tiffany's is based on a book. The movie is known for being a classic, critically acclaimed, and an Oscar winner. It is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night.
Summary of Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly. The free-spirited gamine darts about New York, feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm and elegance, hoping that the party will never end. After "shopping" in front of Tiffany's window, she meets aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard), and they begin a platonic friendship. "Sponsored" by an older woman (Patricia Neal) whose interest in the young man is more than literary, he can identify with her experience better than most, taking it upon himself to protect her from the worst aspects of city life. But she seems to need little protection from such friends as incarcerated mob boss Sally Tomato (Alan Reed), who pays her to carry messages to Sing Sing. With her infectious joi de vivre, she helps Paul break through a paralyzing case of writer's block. But when the genial Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen) appears in New York in search of Holly, the sources of her gossamer lifestyle suddenly become clearer. Edwards's lighter-than-air romantic comedy, set in a fantasy New York, rides on the irresistible charm of Hepburn at her peak, as well as a memorable score by Henry Mancini. Although George Axelrod's screenplay is as different from the original story as George Peppard is from the young Capote, the film succeeds on its own terms.
Details
| Language: | English, Portuguese |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 5 October 1961 |
| Runtime: | 115 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Holly Golightly
as Paul 'Fred' Varjak
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
Like that storied novella by Truman Capote from which it stems, it is a completely unbelievable but wholly captivating flight into fancy composed of unequal dollops of comedy, romance, poignancy, funny colloquialisms and Manhattan's swankiest East...
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- by: A. H. Weiler
Variety
Out of the elusive, but curiously intoxicating Truman Capote fiction, scenarist George Axelrod has developed a surprisingly moving film, touched up into a stunningly visual motion picture.
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
Users Reviews
A surprisingly forward-thinking film for it's time, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is a film that has a fully stylized look, as well as dialogue and acting that seems to leap forward almost out of 1961 (the year it was made) into 1971, a harbinger of...
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie
0/10
I must agree with at least one other reviewer. I never got all the hubub about Breakfast with Tiffany's. I found it... depressing. There wasn't anything endearing or enlightening about it. I think this movie isn't good so much as iconic and people...
- 19.March.2009
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- by: Bridgette
- Bridgette rated this movie2/10Bad
