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Summary: The Writer Gets... More Than Just the Girl
Review: "Audrey Hepburn."I'm supposed to have more than a one word review here. Amazon's rules. Two words will do just fine. "Audrey Hepburn." There was that other guy, whatshisname, the one about as nameless in my memory as Cat, but the guy we men all want to be. Sleek and sophisticated, clever and innocent, beguiling yet without guile: Hepburn demonstrates her natural ability to dance without moving and love without ever having met the audience. She was of an era and grace when poise mattered. And best of all, the writer gets the girl. The good guy finishes first. Swoon with me, and watch this perfect movie once again. Buy it, own it, never let it go. It is all we've got, really, of Holly Golightly, of the Audrey Hepburn we love. I'm disappointed the have nothing particularly special on the DVD, or a boxed set. A complete boxed set is the way to go, including all her her pre-"Roman Holiday" stuff. I fully recommend this movie, and obsessively so. Did you see "Sabrina" yet? Get that one too. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: The Writer Gets... More Than Just the Girl
Review: "Audrey Hepburn."
I'm supposed to have more than a one word review here. Amazon's rules. Two words will do just fine. "Audrey Hepburn." There was that other guy, whatshisname, the one about as nameless in my memory as Cat.
Sleek and sophisticated, clever and innocent, beguiling yet without guile: Hepburn demonstrates her natural ability to dance without moving and love without ever having met the audience. She was of an era and grace when fantasies mattered.
And best of all, the writers gets the girl. The good guy finishes first.
Swoon with me, and watch this perfect movie once again. Buy it, own it, never let it go. It is all we've got, really, of Holly Golightly, of the Audrey Hepburn we love.
I fully recommend this movie, and obsessively so.
Did you see "Sabrina" yet? Get that one too.
Anthony Trendl
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Summary: A wonderful movie!
Review: 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' is a wonderful movie. The first time I saw it I loved it all! Audrey Hepburn looks so young and adorable in this. But then she looks beautiful in all of her movies. This is my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie! I'm not a big fan of Audrey, but I loved this movie! Delightful!
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Summary: Hepburn's Perfect Film Match
Review: What's not to like about this movie? The beautiful diaphanous Hepburn traipses lightly as Holly Golightly all the while hiding a darker side under the surface. Great music, Bohemian parties, New York, Tiffany's, cats in the rain, Mickey Rooney, and Sugar Momma's for struggling artist Paul Jarvak played by George Peppard. This one has it all with the ending leaning toward the slightly melodramatic. It works in its entirety and stands out as one of my 5 fave movies and definitely Hepburn's best. Go get this and watch it time and time again.
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Summary: My Huckleberry Friend...After All These Years
Review: It was such an intense thrill to revisit this movie after more than 30 years. Classically Hepburn to a tea and Peppard, dreamier than I could ever have remembered. The acting falls short occasionally from script flaws and the blackouts are silly, but the performances are quality, first rate and most heart rendering. How eloquent Patricia Neal as the doting "patron of the arts"; how tour de force Mickey Rooney's performance of almost completely unintelligible dialog; how different the Buddy Ebsen character that we view on this screen; how sexy, attractive and infinitely warming is George Peppard's portrayal of a writer who has a patron of distinguished means; and how unbelievably delightful the Audrey Hepburn who fills this screen with a bubbling vitality of deceptive charm, kookiness, and vulnerability. Revisiting this movie as an adult, there appears to be a great deal of Neil Simonesque dialogue interwoven throughout the movie. And the Mancini music has elements of a Blake Edwards product, rendering the movie more endearing with each scene. My favorite line is from Martin Balsam who is quite taken with Holly: "She's a phoney, but a real phoney." If you work in New York, you can identify the woman. I found myself weeping in the last ten minutes of this movie - as a cat lover and a fan who succumbs to the passions of two lost-in-the-woods, lonely lambs who need someone to watch over them. And happily, they do find each other. Although one wonders for how long the fairy tale might last.
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Summary: Classic Audrey
Review: Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of my all time favorite movies. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly is charismatic, charming and complex. I can watch this movie over and over again. While straying from the book, Breakfast at Tiffany's is about two people, Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak, who meet one another when Paul (Fred, baby) moves into Holly's apartment building. Both of their means of supporting themselves are questionable, but they have a lot in common. As they grow closer, they end up being a great source of support and fun for each other. In a bizarre comedy, love story, with some twists and turns, this movie is classic Audrey. She is as beautiful and talented as ever.
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Summary: See why Audrey Hepburn is the greatest of all actresses.
Review: If you have read Capote's novella, it is impossible to take this film seriously, especially its second half. Not because of some bogus complaint about 'respecting the book'. The first half works so hard to 'code' the unsayable (e.g. watch Paul rescuing the South American from the police raid), that when a conventional love story develops, the whole narrtive becomes lopsided. It's a shame, because there are so many cherishable things in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', most of them emanating from cinema's most extraordinary actress, Audrey Hepburn, giving an emotional powerhouse of a performance that breaks through the phoney conception of a 'real phoney', and becomes a moving commentary on her career, her image, her past. 'Moon River' sends shivers and wells tears like no other moment in film, and Jack Warner must have had cloth ears if he thought that voice wouldn't do for Eliza Doolittle. Edwards brings a rare visual intelligence to his treatment, using the devices of 1950s melodrama to provide an ironic commentary on characters with no self-awareness. The sunny melancholy and love of New York (especially the 'breakfast' odyssey, complete with shoplifting sequence borrowed from Melville (Jean-Pierre, that is)), the use of caricature to define difference from a makeshift community, all point to another great New York masterpiece, 'Seinfeld'.
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Summary: Audrey is one classy and funny lady!
Review: I hadn't really been into the old flics, til I saw this one on television, I had to get it. Even though it's an older movie, it's still a classic with me. Even the comedy is cute. I love Audrey and this movie, it's zany and very much fun!
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Summary: For all the wild spirited women
Review: Holly Golightly was in the 60's what Holly would be in the year 2000. A dreamer, a tad shy, a woman on a quest and deep inside a tad scared. I pulled the book off my bookshelf Tuesday as I was in a thoughtful mood and needed to ready something short but with depth that would remind me what life is all about. And after I read the book I watched the movie and was also reminded what class is all about, in watching Audrey Hepburn. She was much like Holly and there are some excellent books via Amazon on her as well that I recommend. But for Breakfast At Tiffany, I give thanks to Truman for this priceless gift. When you read the book even if you have seen the movie, you can still visualize using todays standards etc her standing at Tiffanys eating breakfast (fast food), and having the quaint apartment in NYC and scampering down the fire escape to visit her male neighbor. In fact it is easier to visulaize now then in the 60's when the book and movie were daring, because while most people may have had affairs (sex outside marriage) it was not something so in the open as it is today. In fact the book is fun because when you read it, you compare then and now and realize how much things have changed yet also stayed the same. I also cry at the scene where the cat she loved put out on the street in the rain. I wonder if people realize that this was an act of such pain and angst. She loved that cat so much yet, it was herself she saw being put out in the rain, all alone, scared and not sure what was going to happen next.
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Summary: Money Makin' Package
Review: This is by far Audreys best roll. She simply shines on the screen. They did a fair job moving the story over to the big screen although there are some major differences. Even if your not an Audrey Hepburn fan you'll still going to love this movie. Take Holly for example, she likes to drink (and drink before breakfast), smoke, break stuff, marry for money, party all night, I just love her.
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