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Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name, written by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe. The film stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender woman foundling searching for love and for her long-lost mother, in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.
Irish actor Cillian Murphy has received many accolades for his work on screen including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.
11 mar 2024 · Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for Best Actor in Oppenheimer, but he deserved it 18 years ago with Breakfast On Pluto.
Breakfast on Pluto: Directed by Neil Jordan. With Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson. In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical; Cillian Murphy
2 gru 2005 · Patrick “Kitten” Braden, the husky-voiced, heavy-lidded transvestite played by Cillian Murphy in Neil Jordan’s “Breakfast on Pluto,” wishes that everybody would stop being so serious.
In “Breakfast on Pluto”, he disappears into the role of a transgender woman grappling with several complicated layers of identity. An outcast from a young age, “Kitten” Braden’s life is difficult and dangerous - and Murphy pours his heart into every unexpected emotional beat.
