Rotten
The film is downright aggravating.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Breakfast on Pluto
Same world. Different planet.
2005 · 2h 8m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Neil Jordan
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Breakfast on Pluto
Overview
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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58%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Breakfast on Pluto may seem a fairy tale at times (no pun intended), but this Kitten has claws.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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
Fresh
[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
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
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