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Summary: A big 5 stars...
Review: I saw this movie for the first time on AMC as I was changing channels one evening. (Fortunately, I caught it pretty much from the start.)
What a truly great movie, with a classic George Peppard and the fantastic acting skill of Audrey Hepburn, this is one I would tell everyone to go out and purchase.
A truly classic movie that makes you forget you are actually watching a movie and just takes you along for the ride. Breakfast at Tiffany's did exactly that. From Mickey Rooney, who, I promise, nobody will recognize here, to "cat", this is one for the ages.
Needless to say, after seeing this on television, I instantly went and bought this on DVD. It takes a heck of a movie for me to go out and do that.
Buy and enjoy, you'll love it.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: I love this movie! But then I love Audrey Hepburn! (me and several million other people). "Breakfast at Tiffany's" has one of the best beginnings and endings to a film I have ever seen, and what happens in-between is great too. Seeing it in widescreen on the DVD was a special treat, the picture was very sharp and colorful. Alot of talent went into this film, it has Henry Mancini's music, Blake Edward's direction, it's based on Truman Capote's novel, and has the acting talent's of Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Martin Balsam, John McGiver, Buddy Ebsen, Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney. I actually like Mickey Rooney's performance, it's done in such a board and farcical way, I don't know how anyone could be offended by it.
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Summary: Audrey Hepburn at her finest!!
Review: I managed to catch this movie one Sunday afternoon with nothing to do. I only saw bits and pieces over the years. I'm glad I did because Audrey's performance in this movie was absolutely her best, even better than her Oscar performance in "Roman Holiday". I really felt sorry for her character, Holly Golightly. Everyone she comes in contact with gets hurt. Even when Paul offers to help her, she can only rebel away from him. She doesn't know what she wants in life, except financial freedom. In a way, her character tells us a little bit about ourselves. If it airs on any of the cable movie networks, please don't miss it!! You won't be dissappointed!!
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: I saw this movie a few years ago and was suddenly captured by Audrey Hepburn's charm and poise. When it was released onto DVD, I couldn't believe it. This comedy/drama is a wonderful movie to watch and I highly reccomend it to anyone. Buy now!
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Summary: Sad and Strange
Review: Audrey Hepburn is a large influence on my life (those of you who read reviews under my old sn will know that), and this is possibly her very best film. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story of a young woman who's lost herself over the years. She lives in an apartment with a cat who has no name and eccentric neighbors calling at all hours. Her name suits the personality: Holly Golightly. She falls in and out of romance, but is a romantic. She's somehow well known yet nobody really knows her. The title of the film comes from Holly's habit of taking her breakfast on the streets of New York and looking in the windows of Tiffany's while she eats (immaculately dressed, of course). When Holly's husband appears- seemingly from nowhere -and declares her a fraud, not the high society woman she masquerades as, you get a feeling for the character. I imagine everyone has a different opinion of Holly, but to me she's inspirational. She's willing to leave behind her old life and remake herself in New York City, to never abandon hope for love and to become someone better, someone with a named cat! Joking aside, it's a beautiful film that I would recommend to anyone. I'll agree with one of the other reviewers that it is not for the younger crowd simply because they wouldn't really understand or appreciate it. This is a film for the more mature who would like something a little different from the "new" romantic comedies. Everyone does well with their parts, Audrey is perfect in her role and George Peppard carries it very well where Audrey leaves off. It's the essential love story for your DVD collection.
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Summary: Audrey! Audrey!
Review: this is a wonderful movie. Audrey's performance blew me away. she is so incredible. i love audrey. she is the best actress i have ever admired. she was such an incredible woman. so giving and so loving. we miss. her.
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Summary: "NOT" what I would call a Romantic Comedy
Review: ALthough that is what the jacket cover says it to be. Inspired to watch by "Sex and the City" season finale :) I immediately bought this DVD to hear the song "Moon River" I have heard much hoopla about this movie and it says on the back that it is a Romantic Comedy.... Don't kill me for saying this but I didn't find this a comedy. I enjoyed it but when I got it I bought it to enjoy with my 11 year old daughter, the subject matter wasn't as light as I thought it would be. Audrey Hepburn was BEYOND beautiful and her potrayal of "Holly Golightly" was breathtaking, George Peppard, WOW what a hunk!! and perfect for the kept man, This wasn't something I could sit down with a 11 year old and not explain to her the other innuendos going on throughout the movie. Had it read a dramatic flick I would have known what to expect that song is so Sad... and when she sang it on her fire escape it made me wistful, and miss New York City. Still a keeper for a collector like me but I will have to wait till my daughter is older to share this with her.
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Summary: Become in Awe of Audrey
Review: This film is loosely based on Truman Capotes book. Audrey Hepburn not only stars, but makes this movie her own. She plays Holly Golightly, a misguided farm girl who is trying to avoid being pinned down in life. Hepburn's grace and beauty are the perfect off-set for the sadly alone Golightly. George Peppard adds to the mix by playing Paul Varjak, a writer and eventual love interest. The interaction by the tragic Hepburn and the near-fatherly Peppard will grab your eyes and hold your heart. You'll even be singing the simple but melodic 'Moon River' by the end. This all around winners charm may forever be unparalleled.
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Summary: I Wanted to Be Holly Golightly
Review: Breakfast at Tiffany's From the opening shot of Audrey Hepburn as the enchanting pixilated Holly Golightly, elegantly dressed in simple black gown and pearls with hair swept wispily off her neck, delicately devouring a danish while gazing longingly into the glittering windows of Tiffany's, I wanted to be her. However, as the film unfolds, a much different Holly Golightly is revealed, one who appears playful and resilient on the outside but who suffers from crushing bouts of the "mean reds", a fear of lonliness and disconnection which only a "breakfast at Tiffany's" can cure. Holly has landed by way of Hollywood in New York City to reinvent herself and survives on the $50 per powder room donations of the shallow sex crazed men that desire her and whom she often ends up ditching. She throws wild parties, wears lots of perfect little black dresses and unbelievable hats, looks stunning with mere hours of sleep, visits an incarcerated mafioso named Sally Tomato to exchange weather reports, earning a neat hundred for her efforts, and crawls through windows and into bed with her new neighbor who tenderly reminds her of her brother Fred and whom she calls Fred. She is, at once, a bon vivant, charming and flighty, resourceful and manipulative, vulnerable and lonely, captivating and clever, wise and naive, anxious and frightened. We are simultaneously attracted to and rooting for her, beside her during her mischievous Halloween mask shoplifting spree in the five and ten with "Fred" in love with her guilefulness; heartbroken and sympathetic when she receives word that her brother Fred has been killed in action; and yet disappointed with her callousness when she sends Doc back home, alone, and her insensitivity when she thoughtlessly abandons "cat" in the rain, never believing that they belonged together, not realizing that she had actually found a place to call home, the place she has always been searching for. The original 1958 story was rewritten to make the screenplay more palatable for 1960's audiences. Lost are the homosexual undertones (it is suspected that Paul Varjak is gay in the novella and there are hints of Holly's bisexuality in it as well) of Capote's work as well as the "true to the spirit and occasional vulgar mouth of 'Miss Holly Golightly, Traveling'," ending in which she disappears without a trace. In the Hollywood happy ending version, the wild thing Holly is finally captured by Paul's charms. The final shot of the lovebirds kissing passionately in the pouring rain with "cat" returned safely to Miss Golightly's arms remains the essence of the true and reliable Hollywood romance.
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Summary: Moving romance marred by stereotype
Review: Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard are two attractive young people who live parasitic, unfulfilled lives on the fringes of high society. Peppard's Paul Varjak is struggling to make ends meet while he writes; Hepburn's Holly Golightly is simply struggling to fend off loneliness and the panic attacks caused by her precarious future. They find each other and a very touching love story unfolds, culminating in a wonderful rain-drenched finale. It loses a star from me because of Mickey Rooney's offensively stereotypical performance as Mr. Yunioshi, the Japanese landlord. His inclusion is especially stupid because the character has no useful function in the story whatsoever.
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