Breakfast on Pluto (2005) on Netflix
In 1970s Ireland, Patrick Braden becomes Patricia "Kitten" Braden. She leaves her small town of Tyrellin for London to find the mother who left her as a baby.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Born in 1958, Patrick Braden is left as a baby on the doorstep of the parochial house in Tyrellin, County Cavan, and grows up with an unloving foster mother who is angered by his dresses and lipstick. His friends Charlie, Irwin and Lawrence accept him. In his late teens he comes out as transgender and takes the name Patricia "Kitten" Braden. When Father Liam refuses to tell her anything about Eily Bergin, the mother she has never met, she runs away from home. A glam rock band gives her a ride, and she flirts with its frontman, Billy. From there she sets out for London to look for Eily.
Cast
- Morgan Jonesas Building Site Worker
- Conor McEvoyas Young Patrick Braden
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- To play transgender character Kitten, Cillian Murphy spent weeks studying women's body language and was mentored by a transgender woman who took him clubbing with her friends to help him understand the role.
- The seaside scene between Kitten and Bertie was considered by some to be an allusion to director Neil Jordan's earlier film The Crying Game, which also involved a transgender major character, the IRA and actor Stephen Rea.
- Cillian Murphy's performance as Kitten won the 2007 Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor and earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
- Novelist Patrick McCabe, who co-wrote the screenplay from his own book, makes a cameo appearance in the film as Kitten's creative writing teacher.
- Directors Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe renamed the novel's protagonist from "Pussy" to "Kitten" when adapting it for the film.
