Breakfast at Tiffany's - a fun rom-com but not much more IMO.

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Watched this for the first time - a kind of Sex and The City for the 1950's. Hepburn looked amazing, and the story was fun - and even kind of contemporary; you could take the story and film it as New York circa 2015 and it wouldn't be too wrong.

Mancini's score was superb, though.

[hifiguy]

1. That's pretty much it

Hepburn was gorgeous
It's a very pretty film
Mancini's score was perfection and was exquisitely recorded.

For an equally fun movie, try Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort" a film that was Demy's homage to the great MGM musicals. It has a young Catherine Deneuve, who looks like an angel fallen to earth, her equally gorgeous sister, Francoise Dorleac (who died far too soon in a car crash in the late 1960s) and a terrific Michel Legrand score. Gene Kelly even has a role. Lighter than air, but so pretty to look at and a massively happy ending.

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2. I will check that out - thanks for the rec.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. yup

It was an iconic piece of cinematic art, for its visualizations of NYC, and style. Mancini's score was awesome, but it was a vacuous love story about about a superficial vacuous girl.

There are some great films from France from the same era that blow it away like Breathless, starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo, or Contempt starring Bridgette Bardot, and Jack Palance that I'd watch again any day before Tiffany's.

[LeftinOH]

4. Check out Capote's book version of Breakfast at Tiffany's...

..it's a slim volume, but it's not a romantic adventure at all. Kind of a somber character study. And, FWIW, the character "Holly Golightly" is supposed to be about 19 years old.

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5. Thanks. "In Cold Blood" was just about the best damn thing

I've ever read, and if "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is even half as well-written, I'd likely enjoy it.

[Aristus]

6. Yeah. I was surprised to read that after years of the iconic Hollywood imagery.

The trade-off is Capote's exquisite writing.

I would like to see a re-make that adheres more closely to the novel. That would be interesting.

[Frank Cannon]

7. Jack Black could play the Mickey Rooney character.

It would be "hilarious".

I have never, ever seen the charm in this movie. I have always wondered whether its fan base is playing an inside joke on all the rest of us.