YMMV / Breakfast on Pluto

• Awesome Music: The whole film has an amazing, often rather pep and easy-going soundtrack that often contrasts seemingly quite inappropriately with its general theme of angst. Surprisingly, it works with the very weird, uneven mood of the film.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Too many to count!
• Crosses the Line Twice: The way Kitten imagines her conception.
• Funny Moments:
  • John Joe launching a vicious attack on his work colleague while dressed as a Womble. The director noted that even American audiences, who had no idea what "The Wombles" were, tended to find this scene hilarious.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Father Liam finally admitting that he is Kitten's biological father and trying to make amends for his abandonment. Also, the reveal that he and Kitten's mother did love one another but due to circumstances beyond their control they couldn't be together.
  • At the end: Kitten making a happy life for herself with Charlie and her son.
• Retroactive Recognition: Ruth Negga, who plays Kitten's childhood friend Charlie.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Lawrence's death.
  • When Kitten fantasizes about being a spy, and then imagines magically un-exploding the bomb, and we see that in her mind she was dancing with her childhood love and at the thought of it all...
  • Kitten finally tracking down her real mother, but being unable to reveal herself.
  • Near the end of the film, Father Liam brings Kitten to stay with him and Charlie in the parochial house back in Cavan. He shows Charlie - an unmarried mother - the compassion and public support he didn't show to Kitten's mother, making up for his absence in Kitten's life — but his parishioners don't see it like that. They think he's a disgrace to the parish and violently reject him because he's extended the hand of friendship to a "sinner". It's enough to make Jesus weep...
• The Woobie: Kitten.

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