Breakfast at Tiffany's

UPC: 097361435244

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Adult Situations, Suitable for Children]

Summary: In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on expensive dates and at high-class parties. She escorts various wealthy men, yet fails to return their affections after they have given her gifts and money. Holly's carefree independence is changed when she meets her neighbor, aspiring writer Paul (George Peppard), who is suffering from writer's block while being kept by a wealthy woman (Patricia Neal). Just when Holly and Paul are developing their sweet romance, Doc (Buddy Ebsen) appears on the scene and complicates matters, revealing the truth about Holly's past. Breakfast at Tiffany's was nominated for several Academy awards, winning Best Score for Henry Mancini and Best Song for Johnny Mercer's classic tune "Moon River". ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Picture - Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Drama or Comedy Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Commentary by producer Richard Shepherd
A Golightly gathering
Henry Manicini: more than music
Mr. Yunioshi: an Asian perspective
The making of a classic
It's so Audrey: a style icon
Behind the gates: the tour
Brillance in a blue box
Audrey's letter to Tiffany
Galleries
Original theatrical trailer

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 09/20/2011

Audio: DHMA null, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 114 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Subtitles: French,Spanish,Portuguese

Mark Deming

Blake Edwards may have directed Breakfast at Tiffany's, and screenwriter George Axelrod certainly did a splendid job of adjusting Truman Capote's novel for the screen, but from the first moment Audrey Hepburn steps out of a cab with her coffee and danish and window shops at Tiffany's after a night on the town, this is her movie, and it's all but impossible to imagine another actress in the role. Beyond her tremendous charm and buoyant comic timing, Hepburn manages to make Holly Golightly at once resilient and fragile, a woman who knows her way around Manhattan but still hasn't figured out how not to be hurt by the world around her -- it would have been easy to make Holly seem flighty and annoying, but in Hepburn's capable hands she's an adorable, jaded innocent whose hipster fa?ade and oft-stated desire to marry a wealthy man never quite disguises her need to be loved and to belong. As Paul Varjak, Holly's neighbor, friend, confidante, and eventual boyfriend, George Peppard is almost a bit too strong and solid -- he seems a mite stiff much of the time -- but he plays well off of Hepburn, and knows enough to stay out of her way; elsewhere, Patricia Neal is spot on as Paul's cheerfully cynical "sponsor," and Buddy Ebsen is superb in a brief turn as the former husband of the former Lula Mae Barnes (and could anyone blame him for wanting her back?). The film's only obvious casting mistake is Mickey Rooney, whose buck-toothed and over-the-top shtick as Mr. Yunioshi might be a shade less offensive if he were the least bit funny. However, between Edwards' frothy pacing, Franz F. Planer's lovely location camerawork, and Henry Mancini's memorable score, Breakfast at Tiffany's is a thoroughly charming and witty valentine to one special woman and the city she loves that still enchants more than 40 years after it first hit the screen. ~ Mark Deming ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Kip King  Actor 
Dick Crockett  Actor 
James Lanphier  Actor 
José-Luis de Villalonga  Actor 
Joan Staley  Actor 
George Axelrod  Screenwriter 
Blake Edwards  Director 
Martin Jurow  Producer 
Henry Mancini  Composer (Music Score) 
Richard Shepherd  Producer 
Audrey Hepburn  Actor 
George Peppard  Actor 
Patricia Neal  Actor 
Buddy Ebsen  Actor 
Martin Balsam  Actor 
Mickey Rooney  Actor 
John McGiver  Actor 
Dorothy Whitney  Actor 
Stanley Adams  Actor 
Elvia Allman  Actor 
Alan Reed, Sr.  Actor 
Beverly Hills  Actor 
Claude Stroud  Actor 

Country: USA