breakfast on pluto be one of those beautiful packet with not a very interesting content could have benefit the movie . patrick ( cillian murphy ) be an abandoned child raise by a foster family in the very catholic very conservative ireland of the sixty . very early in his childhood and assume his homosexuality without any real conflict ( perhaps a couple of shock by his foster parent ) and start in a forrest gay gump odyssey through the uk change politics from the sixty to the eighty . the movie be a perpetual searching for his mother who leave him in the door of a catholic priest when he be a little baby . many thing happen in the movie and but everything be take very superficial . there be almost no dramatic conflict about patrick homosexuality and the ira killing and politics ( just a couple of murder never clearly explain ) . historic event be so over sight that barely register in the public ( unless of course you live there or know ireland conflictive history ) . direct by one of the most brilliant irish director and populate by the cream of ireland cinema ( neil jordan and liam neeson and stephen rea and brendan gleeson and cillian murphy ) the movie feel like a big disappointment . it be quite difficult to understand that a movie with such a subject matter could be so awfully shallow . even more difficult and be believe that aside for a couple of tragic dead and this be really a light comedy ( never gross ) and but most of the joke ( and dialogue ) require a lot of familiarly with irish english ( some subtitle might be welcome ) . the length of the movie and be also too much . it could have benefit be half an hour shorter with less story line . the stephen rea ( excellent a always ) magician feel add only to give him something to do ( probably a job ) . however and not everything be bad . the acting be superb ( can not expect less with such a cast ) but the music will make you run to near music shop buy the cd . a piece of advice and do it in the middle of the movie and you will not loose too much .