Breakfast at Tiffany's

*Cultural Reference List 10-11*

Breakfast at Tiffany's is an Academy Award-winning film of the 1960s starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney, and directed by Blake Edwards.

The movie is about Holly Golightly, a young woman always on the run from herself. Since she was a child, she was known to be unstable. She married at fourteen, had the marriage annulled afterward, moved to Hollywood to start a film career, leaves Hollywood for New York (where she earns money as a call girl and by unknowingly carrying coded messages for a mafia boss), and plans to leave New York for Brazil to marry one of the world's richest men.

The main plot is Holly's relationship with neighbor Paul Varjak, who has confidence problems of his own. The story explores the depths of their reltionship and the resolution that occurs within Holly's own mind and between Holly and Paul.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany