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Watched in 2011 (33 movies items)

"Watched on DVD Rating: A- Rewatched"

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"Putting aside the soft-peddling of Holly Golightly's profession - yep, she's a hooker - and the noxious racism of Mickey Rooney's performance, Hepburn and Peppard sparkle while the film captures everything cool about the early 60's."

A Movie Per Year (94 movies items)

" Runner Up: Judgment at Nuremberg "

Breakfast at Tiffany's

“In a bit of expected Hollywood censorship, Truman Capote’s homosexual writer from the novella gets turned into a staunchly heterosexual stud in the film version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Also rather odd, it makes explicit that George Peppard’s writer is a kept man and essentially a prostitute for an older woman, but skirts around Audrey Hepburn’s good-time girl’s hooker roots in the novella. Despite these problems, which also include the cringe-inducing xenophobic caricature that is Mickey Rooney in yellowface, Tiffany’s remains a charming and winsome bauble.

Hepburn stars as Holly Golightly, that self-made and delusional Manhattan hipster with the past that no one can piece together and the kind of issues that could keep most therapists in work for a lifetime. So st” read more

#lessambitiousfilms (4 movies items)

"Snack Time at K-Mart"

A flawed classic

“I know it is a huge classic and indeed, it is not bad and Audrey Hepburn is even pretty good but the Rooney's character kind of ruined the movie for me. It's probably one of the most offending characters I have ever seen in a movie. Pretty terrible... Too bad because the rest of the movie is not bad at all.” read more

Here they are...100+ best characters in cinema (90 movies items)

"Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn "

Alamo Drafthouse's posters (Part 2) (39 movies items)

" by Diana Sudyka"