Breakfast on Pluto (film)
Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedydrama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe. This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender foundling searching for love and her longlost mother in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.
The story moves to Patricks late teen years. Patrick gets into trouble in school by writing explicit fiction imagining how he was conceived by his parents and by inquiring about where to get a sex change. Patrick comes out as transgender and renames himself Kitten, also using the name Patricia. She approaches Father Liam in confession, asking about Eily, but is rebuffed. Kitten soon runs away from home, catching a ride with a glam rock band, Billy Hatchet and the Mohawks, and striking up a flirtation with leader Billy. Billy installs the lovestruck, homeless Kitten in a trailer home where she discovers hes hiding guns smuggled for the Irish Republican Army. Meanwhile, Irwin has begun to work with the IRA, much to the dismay of his nowgirlfriend Charlie. Kitten dismisses Irwins politics as serious, serious, serious, but after Lawrence is killed by police detonating a suspected IRA car bomb, she tosses the IRA gun cache into a lake. Billy abandons Kitten to flee the IRA, while Kitten plays crazy, so that she wont be shot.Kitten next journeys to London to search for Eily, but initial inquiries prove fruitless. Penniless, she finds shelter in a tiny cottage in a park, only to find that its a childrens entertainment park for The Wombles. Kitten gets a job as a singing, dancing Womble, but immediately loses it when her sponsor and coworker punches their boss. Forced into prostitution, she is violently attacked by her first client, saving herself from strangulation by spraying him in the eyes with Chanel No.perfume. At a diner, magician Bertie Vaughan asks her what she is writing in her notebook. She explains that its the story of The Phantom Lady who was swallowed up by the big city, then reveals its about the mother she is seeking. Bertie hires her to be his magicians assistant, turning her life story in a hypnosis act. The two take a romantic day trip, but Kitten explains that shes not biologically female when Bertie tries to kiss her. Bertie says that he already kn
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