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Synopsis: Holly Golightly is a flighty Manhattan party girl, who expects "money for the powder room as well as for cab fare" for her companionship. She has even gotten a lucrative once weekly job to visit notorious convict Sally Tomato in Sing Sing, she needing to report back to Sally's lawyer the weather report that Sally tells her as proof of her visits with him in return for payment. Her aspirations for glamor and wealth are epitomized by the comfort she feels at Tiffany's, the famous high end jewelry retailer where she believes nothing can ever go wrong. Her resolve for this wealth is strengthened, if not changed slightly in focus, upon news from home. Into Holly's walk-up apartment building and thus her life is Paul Varjak, a writer who Holly states reminds her of her brother Fred, who she has not seen in years and who is currently enlisted in the army. The two quickly become friends in their want for something outside of their current lot. Paul's situation is closer to Holly's than he woul
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Blake Edwards
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
NOT RATED
Year:
1961
115 min
4,612 Views


I'm in a terrible rush.

Grand Central Station,

and step on it, darling.

Is it really only three weeks

since I left you in Rome?

Seems like years.

-You seen the apartment?

-Not yet.

I know it was wicked of me,

but I couldn't resist.

I went ahead and fixed it up without you.

I think it's darling of course

but if you absolutely hate it, we can rip

everything up and start from scratch.

Miss Golightly!

Hey, baby! Where you going?

Come on, baby. Open the door.

Be a pal.

You're breaking up a beautiful party.

Come on, baby. Open the door.

Hey, the band's swinging.

Come on, baby.

Miss Golightly.

Once again, I must protest!

If you don't stop that phonograph

right this minute,

I'm going to call the police department!

Yeah. That's more better.

What's the matter, baby?

Come on. You're a great kid.

Open the door.

Come on, baby. I'm waiting for you.

-It's all right. It's only me.

-Now, wait a minute. Miss...

Golightly. Holly Golightly.

I live downstairs.

We met this morning, remember?

Yeah.

It's all right. She's gone.

I must say,

she works late hours for a decorator.

The thing is, I have

the most terrifying man downstairs.

I mean,

he's sweet when he isn't drunk

but let him start lapping up the vino,

and oh, golly, quel beast.

It finally got so tiresome down there,

I just went out the window.

Look, you can throw me out

if you want to,

but you did look so cosy in here, and

your decorator friend had gone home

and it was beginning to get a bit cold

out there on the fire escape.

And I always heard

people in New York

never get to know their neighbours.

Well, how was Sing Sing?

Fine.

I made the train and everything.

And what's the weather report?

"Small-craft warnings

Block Island to Hatteras."

Whatever that means.

You know, you're sweet. You really are.

And you look

a little like my brother Fred.

Do you mind if I call you Fred?

Not at all.

$300, she's very generous.

Is it by the week, the hour or what?

Okay, the party's over. Out.

Oh, Fred. Darling Fred, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

Don't be angry.

I was just trying to let you know

I understand.

I understand completely.

It's okay, stick around.

Make yourself a drink.

Throw me my robe

and I'll make you one.

You stay right where you are.

You must be absolutely exhausted.

I mean, it is very late

and you were sound asleep

and everything.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen

or trs fou or something.

I don't think you're any fouer

than anybody else.

Yes, you do. Everybody does.

And I don't mind.

It's useful being top banana

in the shock department.

What do you do, anyway?

-I'm a writer, I guess.

-You guess? Don't you know?

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George Axelrod

George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play, The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and also adapted Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1962). more…

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