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With: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Conor McEvoy, Gavin Friday, Ian Hart, Eva Birthistle, Ruth McCabe, Steven Waddington, Marky Doherty, Sid Young, Ciaran Nolan
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Written by: Neil Jordan, based on a novel by Patrick McCabe
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Directed by: Neil Jordan
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MPAA Rating: R for sexuality, language, some violence and drug use
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Running Time: 127
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Date: 09/03/2005
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Bound and Dragged
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Writer/director Neil Jordan adapts another novel by Patrick McCabe (The Butcher Boy), but the results are far less exhilarating. Cillian Murphy (Red Eye) goes all out as Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a cooing cross-dresser in 1970s Ireland. Dropped on a parish doorstep and raised by foster parents, he strikes out for London to find his real mother. Patrick glides through a series of small adventures, each accompanied by its own colorful supporting characters. Jordan tries to give the film a sense of whimsy with its selection of bizarre pop music and its little CGI birdies who narrate the tale in subtitled twitters, but the overall film lacks a sense of urgency, as if Patrick had all the time in the world to get where he's going. Liam Neeson co-stars.
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