Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Directed by

Neil Jordan

Genre

drama film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom, Ireland

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

R

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 440 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A transgender woman travels from her small Irish town to London during the 1970s to find the mother she never knew. She encounters a series of colorful characters and difficult situations along the way.

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What happens

Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay he co-wrote with Patrick McCabe, based on McCabe's 1998 novel of the same name. Set during the Troubles in the 1970s, the film stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender woman foundling who leaves her small Irish town for London in search of her long-lost mother. Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson and Liam Neeson also star. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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