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Rating: 5 stars

All movies seen on 10/10/2011

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Directed by Blake Edwards

Comedy | Drama

Most recently watched by sensoria, lordofthemovies, ashe5k, vivalaserdisc, schofizzy, sleestakk

Overview

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Rated G | Length 115 minutes

Actors

Audrey Hepburn | George Peppard | Patricia Neal | Buddy Ebsen | Martin Balsam | José Luis de Villalonga | John McGiver | Dorothy Whitney | Stanley Adams | Elvia Allman | Alan Reed | Beverly Powers | Claude Stroud | Mickey Rooney | Don Anderson | Al Avalon | Janet Banzet | Mel Blanc | Joe Scott | Jim Michael | Henry Barnard | Henry Beckman | Arthur Berkeley | Nicky Blair | Willie Bloom | Bill Bradley | Thayer Burton | Florine Carlan | Sue Casey | Roydon Clark | Marian Collier | Christine Corbin | Dick Crockett | Tom Curtis | Tommy Farrell | James Field | George Fields | Joseph Glick | Joe Gray | Joseph J. Greene | Sam Harris | Pete Kellett | Barbara Kelley | Kip King | Frank Kreig | Gil Lamb | Hanna Landy | James Lanphier | Mary LeBow | Paul Lees | Leatrice Leigh | Mel Leonard | Leota Lorraine | Mike Mahoney | Frank Marth | Fay McKenzie | William Meader | Joyce Meadows | Harold Miller | Hollis Morrison | Kate Murtagh | Bill Neff | Miriam Nelson | Chuck Niles | Peggy Patten | Robert Patten | John Perri | Michael Quinlivan | William Benegal Rau | Tony Regan | Charles Sherlock | Annabella Soong | Helen Spring | Joan Staley | Richard Wyler | Nino Tempo | Towyna Thomas | Danny Truppi | Glen Vernon | Linda Wong | Wilson Wood | Michael Zaslow | Orangey the Cat

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Viewing Notes

All I’ve ever known about BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’s was the Deep Blue song and society’s love for it, so I didn’t really know what to expect except that it wouldn’t live up to the hype. But now I get it.

Where I expected a probably-decent, but cheesy 60s romantic comedy, what I got instead was a funny, but dark movie taking some nice, well-thought turns. And while I appreciate the broad strokes, what I really liked was the small directing details, like the guy sucking his thumb at the party, or the lady with the mirror.

All of those compliments aside, I wish Mickey Rooney’s pandering role had been tossed; it wasn’t funny now and I can’t imagine it was in 1961 either.

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