BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S -- Blake Edwards, dir

©1961
studio: Paramount Home Video
production company: Jurow-Shepherd, Paramount Pictures
dir: Blake Edwards
cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, José Luis de Villalonga, John McGiver, Alan Reed, Dorothy Whitney, Beverly Powers, Stanley adams, Claude Stroud, Elvia Allman, Mickey Rooney
screenplay: George Axelrod (based on a novel by Truman Capote)

A woman rides the waves of celebrity while hiding her true self from everyone, including herself and the man she won't admit loving.

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This was a wonderful psychological character study. Take a call girl and a gigolo, mix them with high society and have them be neighbors, and this is the wonderful movie that comes from it.

None of the characters are particularly likeable, and I really didn't care whether or not they ended up together, but I enjoyed seeing the realization and determination to change come to Hepburn.

Peppard was a walking mannequin for the most part. I never cared a bit for him or his character, but he wasn't really necessary, as it was Hepburn's movie, as "Holly Golightly."

"She's a phony. But she's a real phony" is the way one character describes "Holly" and it is quite an apt description. She tells her country-bumpkin husband (Ebsen) that she's a wild animal, and you can't expect a wild animal to settle down.

The character analysis is constant but is so well filmed that it sits well. The party sequence is wonderful at showing the decadence and decay of the socialite set

I was expecting a romance, but thoroughly enjoyed the psychological tale that developed.

Recommended.