History Film / BreakfastOnPluto

The film stars Creator/CillianMurphy as Patrick Braden, a transgender orphan who prefers to be known as Patricia, or "Kitten", growing up in rural Ireland near the border with [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]] in the 1970s. Ostracised in her hometown and obsessed with the secrets surrounding her birth, she heads off to London in search of the mother who abandoned her.

->'''Kitten:''' And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...that all the songs she'd listened to - all the love songs - that they were only songs.
->'''Bertie:''' What's wrong with that?
->'''Kitten:''' Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she ''did'', you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
->'''Bertie:''' Where?
->'''Kitten:''' On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

-->'''Mr. Silky String:''' And just who is this "Phantom Lady"?
-->'''Kitten:''' Well, it's my mother really. I call her that... to pretend it's a story... that's happening to someone else, you see?
-->'''Mr. Silky String:''' Why do you pretend that?
-->'''Kitten:''' Because otherwise, I might cry and never stop.

The film stars Creator/CillianMurphy as Patrick Braden, a {{transgender}} orphan who prefers to be known as Patricia, or "Kitten", growing up in rural Ireland near the border with [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]] in the 1970s. Ostracised in her hometown and obsessed with the secrets surrounding her birth, she heads off to London in search of the mother who abandoned her.

* {{Transgender}}: Kitten.

'''''Breakfast on Pluto''''' is a 2005 movie directed by Neil Jordan (''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', ''Film/TheCryingGame''), adapted from the critically [[FilmOfTheBook acclaimed novel]] by Patrick [=McCabe=].

The film stars Creator/CillianMurphy as Patrick Braden, a {{transgender}} orphan (who prefers to be known as Patricia, or “Kitten”) growing up in rural Ireland near the border with [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]] in the 1970’s. Ostracised in her home town and obsessed by the secrets surrounding her birth, she heads off to London in search of the mother who abandoned her.

Also stars Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/StephenRea, Creator/RuthNegga and Creator/BrendanGleeson.

* BlackComedyRape: The bizarre story Kitten writes for class about her conception.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kitten. She often behaves quite bizarrely and has an extremely unique take on the world, building up an elaborate pseudo-mythology around herself. At times, she seems to genuinely believe she’s living a fairy tale (to the point of full-blown SanitySlippage) but there are moments when she shows real insight into her situation and basically admits that she clings to her fantasies because the truth is too painful:

-->'''Kitten:''' Because otherwise I might cry and never stop.

* CreatorCameo: Patrick [=McCabe=] (the author of the original novel) makes a cameo as "Peepers" Egan, the school-teacher who yells at Kitten for writing a pornographic story.
* DeadpanSnarker: Charlie. Also Kitten at times, who somehow manages to combine this with elements of TheCutie, the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and ThePollyanna.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: As seen on the pade picture, Cillian Murphy makes for a convincing lady.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the hardships she goes through, Kitten [[spoiler:makes a happy life for herself, and she, Charlie and Charlie's son become a happy family together]].

** humorously reference later on in a fantasy sequence where secret agent Kitten takes down a hardened IRA cell with her "anti-terrorist spray"

* ParentalAbandonment: Both of Kitten's parents.

* RandomEventsPlot

* TheSeventies
* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles: The real-life context of the Troubles provides a backdrop to the film. Kitten's first boyfriend was an ardent Irish Republican involved with paramilitary activity, [[spoiler: one of her childhood friends is killed by a carbomb (which could have been planted by Republicans or Loyalists)]] and [[spoiler: one of her childhood friends becomes a member of the IRA and later, after the British army threaten his girlfriend, becomes an informant, leading to his execution by another IRA member]]. Kitten's [[spoiler: arrest for planting a bomb in a nightclub is reminiscent of the Guilford Four case, immortalised on film in [[InTheNameOfTheFather]].]]

* TrueCompanions: Kitten, Charlie, Erwin, and Lawrence when they were growing up. At the end of the film there's another one consisting of Kitten, Charlie, Charlie's baby and probably [[spoiler: Father Liam]].

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: InUniverse. The police take Kitten to hospital after [[spoiler: the club she's dancing in is bombed by the IRA]]. Initially they're concerned and sympathetic, but as her clothes are cut away in the hospital they realise she's transgender, or "crossdressing". Cue an arrest for terrorism and a series of sensationalist tabloid headlines.

* UsefulNotes/Ireland: Kitten and her friends grew up near the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, in County Cavan. In London, she meets other Irish immigrants (including =JohnJoe=, who offers her a job purely because she's Irish like him) and faces anti-Irish bigotry from the police.

'''''Breakfast on Pluto''''' is a 2005 movie directed by Neil Jordan (''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', ''Film/The Crying Game''), adapted from the critically [[FilmOfTheBook acclaimed novel]] by Patrick [=McCabe=].

'''''Breakfast on Pluto''''' is a 2005 movie directed by Neil Jordan (''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', ''The Crying Game''), adapted from the critically [[FilmOfTheBook acclaimed novel]] by Patrick [=McCabe=].

* BreakTheCutie: Kitten.

* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles: Several characters are either IRA members or sympathizers, and Kitten is wrongly accused of planting a bomb in a bar in order to kill some soldiers on leave.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When the police find a wounded Kitten and see her body under her clothes, one yells, "Christ, you're a ''bloke!"''

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Charlie travels to London to have an abortion. Kitten accompanies Charlie to the clinic, assuring her that she's making the right decision, fearing the child might end up a "disaster" like [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kitten]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser herself]]. Charlie decides against it at the last second--[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments turns out she wouldn't mind at all if the child ended up like Kitten]].

* [[MrImagination Ms. Imagination]]: Kitten is prone to letting her imagination run wild. It's partially a smokescreen to protect herself from the pains of her life.
* UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland: The first half of the movie takes place just across the border from here. Several characters (Erwin, Billy Hatchet, ThoseTwoBadGuys) are IRA members who seem to be using the place as a safe haven.