One of the king daddy of all romantic comedies and a star vehicle made exactly for the lovely and way too skinny Audrey Hepburn. This film is an absolute classic, with it’s only real downfalls being the racist depiction of a Japanese man by Mickey Rooney and the fact that you will never get Moon River out of your head after you heart this film because it plays over and over again. The rest of the film is quite enjoyable with great actors, and a good story.

This is the story of Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) a New York socialite attempting to find herself a rich husband, but her world is in for a change. Already she annoys her upstairs neighbor Mr. Yunioshi (Mickey Rooney) by always losing her keys and having to always buzz this artist to let her in, but then when she is having trouble with one of her men, and she goes up her fire escape and sneaks into her new upstairs neighbor’s room, this is the room of Paul Varjack (George Peppard) who she calls Fred. Fred too is living off people, but he has a rich woman who pays for his living, and keeps him, so he doesn’t even get his writing done. Paul is quickly taken with Holly, though she is not one to let anyone get too close.

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Holly has been set up by a crooked lawyer to go and talk to a mob boss every week, and take out a message about the weather, and Paul goes with her once, as well as tries to help her in her life, and he starts to fall for her.

Holly is still after money though, but her past starts to catch up with her. Paul ends up meeting Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen), a man who claims to be Holly’s, or as he calls her, Lulu May’s husband. Her brother who is a terror is coming home, and he won’t take care of him unless Lulu May comes home. Paul is disturbed and hooks up Holly and her husband, who turns out to be her ex, because the marriage was annulled, and they were married when Holly was 14. He sends her on her way.

Holly then hooks up with the ultra rich José da Silva Pereira (José Luis de Villalonga), and is going to leave with him for Brazil, and hopefully get married. Paul has meanwhile broken from his benefactor, and even published a new short story, the first since his novel before he hooked up with her.

Then things don’t turn out so well for Holly when she is arrested in association with the mob boss and his drug deals. Paul gets her out, but she plans to leave for Brazil, but he has a letter for her from José explaining why he can’t be with her. Holly knows Paul loves her, but she lets her unnamed cat out fo the cab, and plans on going to the airport which will end her up in jail. Paul pays the cabbie, and gets out to search for the cat. and Holly finally does what is right, and gets out and chases down the man she loves Paul.

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This film is the perfect twisted vehicle for Hepburn. Twisted because of her love for Tiffany’s though she can’t afford anything there, and going from man to man to try and live. And he life does not seem too healthy, but she does seem gorgeous. Quite an enjoyable film, and cool to see George Peppard, who I know from my childhood in the A-Team.