In the 1970s, a foundling lass, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Perhaps too audacious for some and too coy for others, Breakfast on Pluto is one of those mercurial movies where you really have no idea where it'll take you next. Like its star, it's smart, mischievous and fearless.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
1 Jan 2006
fresh:
[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
5 Jan 2006
rotten:
Like Kitten and everything else about Breakfast on Pluto, it's altogether too overstated and obvious, but at least it doesn't pretend to have any significance whatsoever.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Jan 2006
fresh:
Breakfast on Pluto may seem a fairy tale at times (no pun intended), but this Kitten has claws.