Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naive, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer. In spite of some questionable casting decisions, such as Mickey Rooney playing a caricatured Japanese neighbor, Blake Edwards's movie adaptation of Truman Capote's 1958 novella remains a classic, if only for Audrey Hepburn's outstanding portrayal of the flighty socialite Holly Golighty. She was nominated for an Oscar for best actress for the role. She did a good job of capturing the imperfect qualities of the figure Capote himself referred to as a "American geisha" in the original writing.

Even in the face of Edwards' distinctly lighter interpretation of the novella, which does away with much of Capote's original cynicism that provided so much of the story's fervor, her performance and that of George Peppard, who plays her stiff but immoral neighbor torn between convenient love and the riskier but more alluring romance symbolized by Golighty, keep the movie afloat. Despite this, many people still consider the movie to be a cult classic today. The movie was chosen by the Library of Congress in 2012 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two of them, and the music, which included "Moon River", was nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning five of them.

Detailed information:

Based on: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Starring: Audrey Hepburnm, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen

Release date: October 5, 1961

Link to watch: imdb.com/title/tt0054698/