Breakfast on PlutoItaly / France / USA
2005, 83min.
 Script/Dir.: Neil Jordan, Dir. of Phot.: Declan Quinn, Compos.: Anna Jordan, Prod. Design: Tom Conroy, Sound: Brendan Deasy, Edit.: Tony Lawson, Prod.: Neil Jordan, Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley.
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson.
An Irish boy becomes an emotional and sexual outcast as the 1960s fade into the 1970s in this period drama from director Neil Jordan. When he was just a baby in the early '60s, Patrick Braden was abandoned by his mother and left on the doorstep of a church overseen by Father Bernard. Placed in a foster home, sensitive Patrick doesn't much care for the emotionally chilly attitude of his new "family," and psychologically buffers himself against the world by writing stories that make fun of Father Bernard and the other authority figures in his life. As he grows into adulthood, Patrick also discovers that he enjoys dressing in women's clothes and prefers the company of men In the early '70s, Patrick — who has since taken on the drag name "Kitten" — makes his way to London, where he becomes involved with a small-time nightclub magician who gives the young man a place to say, a sense of security, and a job as his on-stage assistant. However, Patrick's idyllic life proves short-lived when his old friends come to town on IRA "business." | Jordan, Neil  Born 1950, Sligo, Ireland.
Jordan began his career as an acclaimed fiction writer. He entered the film industry in 1981 as a script consultant on John Boorman's Excalibur, and subsequently made a documentary about the making of the film. After scripting another film, Traveller, Jordan wrote and directed his first film, the stylish crime drama Angel. After attracting his first wave of international recognition for the Company of Wolves , his horror-tinged retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, Jordan had his first real success with Mona Lisa. The director's reputation suffered two successive blows when he came to the U.S. to make High Spirits and We're No Angels, two comedies that both proved to be massive disappointments. Jordan rebounded somewhat when he returned to Ireland to direct The Miracle, a poignant drama about two Irish teens, but it was with his subsequent effort, The Crying Game, that his reputation was truly established. With a major international hit under his belt, Jordan returned to Hollywood to direct his first big-budget extravaganza, an adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Substantially greater acclaim surrounded Jordan's next effort, the Michael Collins, a biopic of the legendary co-founder of the IRA. Jordan founded his own production company that created two films on which he was listed as producer.
Filmography
Angel (1982), The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), High Spirits (1988), We're No Angels (1989), The Miracle (1991), The Crying Game (1992), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Michael Collins (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), In Dreams (1999), The End of the Affair (1999), Not I (2000), The Good Thief (2002), Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
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