Recent Reviews for Breakfast at Tiffany's
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MCT:November 22, 2008Aberration. I've never been able to watch this all the way through...don't believe in Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly.
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MCT:November 22, 2008Directed By: Blake Edwards
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Buddy Ebsen Mickey Rooney, George Peppard.
Review:
Well, I don't know how to start for romantic comedy like this isn't my favorite, though I still like romantic comedy. I tried my best to like this movie, and fortunately I like it.
This movie is a good one, with Audrey Hepburn performed as an independent young woman, Holly Golightly. She received an Oscar for her performance here. Also, as her company, there's George Peppard who played well and Mickey Rooney as the scene-stealer.
Well, most of us know what's the best things of the movie. What else? Beside it's sweet, beautiful song, Moon River? The screenplay maybe. But the score of this movie (also the song), is the best part, one of the best movie-song of all time.
Uh,yeah, this is it. I could say nothing more. But I still wondering, why it's titled "Breakfast At Tiffany's"?
Moment:
Holly Golightly played and sing Moon River, and Fred stopped his writing to see her.
Quotes:
Holly Golightly: He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.
Paul Varjak: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store.
Holly Golightly: That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!"You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. I must say, the mind reels."
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MCT:November 20, 2008
this is really a good movie..i think that this movie started all the other "romantic comedy" films out there..things happened so fast in this film but it's always nice singing along with "..moonriver..hehe" =)
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MCT:November 18, 2008lol... both Hanibal from the A-Team and Jeb Calmpett are in this... of yeah that Audrey bad is hot!! and why is Micley doing a terrible asian parody when there were plent of horrible asian actors available??
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MCT:November 17, 2008I'm still trying to figure out why this movie's got so much hype, but I thought it was cute. I'd watch it again :)
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MCT:November 11, 2008
Audrey Hepburn is just brilliant, her vulnerability suits this movie just perfectly...
Cat gives his best performance also... :) -
MCT:November 11, 2008
This movie is seriously awesome. Audrey Hepburn is excellent as Holly Golightly, and the end where she leaves her cat behind made me cry. :( Go see it!
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MCT:November 9, 2008
Although a classic and Audrey Hepburns definative role I feel that this film was lacking at times and pushing it at others. Some of the characters were flatly unrealistic, even Audrey's southern girl character just came off. And parts of the story dragged in it's own stupidity. Yet for all it's faults it is too moving and lovely not to be great. Most memorable song in a film, moonriver, and Audrey outside Tiffany's licking an ice-cream. With one of the greatest songs ever, the hauntingly beautiful 'Moon River'.
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MCT:November 9, 2008A total classic great movie .. I think I've seen it a dozen times with one of my favorite actresses who is gorgeous & has total class!
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MCT:November 8, 2008
Great expectation ends in a good result! I've always wanted to watch this movie and finally last night I did!!!!
This is simply one of the best movie that I ever watch. The cast: Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard are just super! The song: Moon River is one of the best song in the world and I will never get bored with it...
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MCT:November 8, 2008No building is riper for romance than the Upper East Side brownstone where Holly and Paul live in Breakfast at Tiffany's. As James Sanders points out in Celluloid Skyline, the "inherently contradictory nature of the building--as a home for solitary young people, yet a domestic environment that encouraged neighborly relations--continued to make it an obvious locale for romance, stories that by their nature tracked the gradual victory of connection over solitude." While the front of the house is real, the rest is a stage set; row houses don't have tenement fire escapes like the one on which Holly strums her guitar. But Sanders points out that it is an instinctive, if not literal truth. The brownstone is a single-family residence broken into apartments, yearning for wholeness. "Superimposing a domestic unity atop otherwise solitary paths, of linking the lives, and perhaps even the hearts of New York's 'huckleberry friends.'"
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a film that is almost perfect, if I could recast the blandly handsome George Peppard and ax the racist caricature of Micky Rooney's Mr. Yunioshi, a character he said he hated. And, for me, the sentimentalization of prostitution is a problem, as well, although many a Manhattan migrant has found sexual liberation to be one of the more intoxicating aspects of urban life. Of course, we do NOT want it to turn this into Midnight Cowboy. "While it may be the archetypical Audrey Hepburn film, it's nowhere near her best. Blake Edwards' notion of life in the early sixties is stunningly inauthentic--his idea of a swinging party animal is Martin Balsam." (Thompson)
Why has this film maintained its popularity over the years? Perhaps, because it represents virtually the last moment in American movies where an actress was glamorized for glamour's sake. Audrey Hepburn is evoked as an inspiration by someone or other in almost every issue of Vogue; and Audrey Style is full of tributes to her ineffable and inimitable elegance. She is invariably linked with her exact contemporary, Jackie Kennedy. They represent 20th century style in a way no subsequent icons do. "People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant," she once said, "when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say, 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies and it made such a difference.'" -
MCT:November 6, 2008
Overrated. Audrey Hepburn is a great actor but I was a little disappointed with this movie I think because so many people make such a big deal about it and I just was not feeling it. My favorite will always be Sabrina. This movie just seemed a little too long and predictible.
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MCT:November 3, 2008Audrey Hepburn is superb as Holly Golightly and the film retains its charm through the on-again off-again relationship between Hepburn and peppar. Director Blake Edwards, like the great Vincente Minnelli, is a master at staging party scenes.
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MCT:November 3, 2008
Holly Golightly, pearls round her neck, huge sunglasses covering her eyes, coffee in hand stares into the window of New York?s Tiffany?s Jewellery store. It is an iconic image, plastered over posters, cards, handbags and passport cases.
But Breakfast at Tiffany?s is more. It is ?Fred? climbing out of the window at a ridiculously crowded party when the police arrive; it is cheap animal masks, nameless cats, sleeping masks, naps in the bath, lost shoes, Sing Sing prison, Moon River on a window sill with a guitar.
It is an unlikely love story which blossoms amongst social climbers and the rich and famous in a society motivated by money. And at the centre is Holly Golightly the chique life and soul of the party who lives a meaningless life in a tiny flat and is really just a damaged, slightly mad young woman who has runaway from a drab life in the South to live amongst the glitter of New York.
Breakfast at Tiffany?s is iconic, humorous and touches your heart and really cannot be missed. -
MCT:October 21, 2008
Despite the fact that this movie had a very subtle plot I loved it. She's crazy, he's young, handsome, and is the other man to a rich, middle-aged cougar and life couldn't be much better. It's a nice movie to watch when you're feeling peculiar or are looking for a pick-me-up, because honestly; her life sucked in the beginning.
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MCT:October 21, 2008
Audrey at her finest! It has been rumored that she possibly plays a prostitute, but that is never really proved in the movie. A tragic love story!
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MCT:October 20, 2008
yes yes yes...all nice and everything. personally i enjoy the blatant racism and throwing of cat in a garth marenghi stylee. and can i just point out that if you find this film romantic then you're odd.
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MCT:October 11, 2008
This is one of my favorite movies. Audery Hepburn is amazing. I love her hair and how she dresses and I dont really care about that stuff.
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MCT:October 10, 2008
Wow, I totally understand why this movie is so famous. I absolutely love it! I love the character of Holly because she's really interesting and flawed, and you can almost see through all her crazy actions to her real emotion underneath. Like, how she says all the men she dates are rats, etc, and then in the end Paul tells her she's put herself into a box and she should take a chance on life. I love the ending SO MUCH! I'm so glad Holly found Cat; when she kicked him out of the cab, I freaked out! Seriously, this is one of the best movies ever made, if not the best, because of its sort of deep message. I love it!
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MCT:October 9, 2008
Love both the book and the movie! I love it!! I love it!! I love it!!!
I love this type of movie! I love how everything just glows!! -
MCT:October 6, 2008
My favorite part of this movie is of course the lovely Audrey Hepburn and her gorgeous hair-dos and fashion statements! I liked the quirky personality of Holly Golightly, her naïveté, and her vulnerable, child-like heart. There were some good scenes with great music to go with them, some interesting party scenes, and I adored the ending. Unfortunately, I found a lot of scenes were rather dull.
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MCT:October 5, 2008
This movie is such a adorable romantic movie. Audrey Hepburn has a great performance,also cutie George Peppard as well!
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MCT:September 22, 2008
Audrey Hepburn is simply breathtaking. She is greatly missed. Side note, was Buddy Edsen ever young?
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MCT:September 21, 2008
Containing one of the most romantic scenes I have ever seen in a movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's is adorable, beautiful and sad at the same time. Audrey Hepburn is a classic beauty and this is a classic movie.
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MCT:September 19, 2008
i loved this so very much. Audrey is so elegant and lovely in all of her films but in this she is amazing dahling.
