Touches You

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It does justice to the book by Truman capote of the same name. Audrey Hepburn looks gorgeous and acts really well. The film shows the flawed protagonist beautifully and creates empathy for her. The characters and the story are simply beautiful

I saw this in the 1970s as a girl and like many people was entranced by Audrey Hepburn's performance. Now, in re-watching it and reading how Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, it dawns on me that someone like Anna Nicole Smith would've been perfect for the role, had she been an actress. I'm surprised this film has not been remade yet.

Plot Holly Golightly is a flighty Manhattan party girl, who expects "money for the powder room as well as for cab fare" for her companionship. She has even gotten a lucrative once weekly job to visit notorious convict Sally Tomato in Sing Sing, she needing to report back to Sally's lawyer the weather report that Sally tells her as proof of her visits with him in return for payment. Her aspirations for glamor and wealth are epitomized by the comfort she feels at Tiffany's, the famous high end jewelry retailer where she believes nothing can ever go wrong. Her resolve for this wealth is strengthened, if not changed slightly in focus, upon news from home. Into Holly's walk-up apartment building and thus her life is Paul Varjak, a writer who Holly states reminds her of her brother Fred, who she has not seen in years and who is currently enlisted in the army. The two quickly become friends in their want for something outside of their current lot. What can i say? This movie is VERY dated. It's slow and vapid and nothing like what I thought it would be. I am shocked it is considered a classic. LOVE Truman Capote, but this movies surely cannot do justice to his book.It's really thing and boring and nothing seems real. Even for the sixities. And they call her a socialite but she's sort of more like a high class hooker. So's George Pepard.

The moment the central character threw her cat out of the cab into the pouring rain in NYC, I was DONE. No matter how you tart it up with beautiful actors in gorgeous clothes, no matter how sympathetically the characters' situations are portrayed, you cannot get past the fact that they are vile, selfish people with no heart, integrity or moral compass. It says a lot for our society that this film is so highly rated.