Breakfast at Tiffany's Movie Review - Starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a wonderful romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Audrey Hepburn plays her best known role in this film as Holly Golightly, a glamorous "wild thing" who works as a call girl in New York City. George Peppard plays Paul Varjak, a writer and gigolo who ends up falling in love with her. The chemistry between the two works quite well, culminating in a gripping and heartfelt ending.

The movie begins with Holly Golightly peering at a display at Tiffany's in Manhattan. She lives in an small apartment with no furniture and a cat with no name. She works as a call girl and longs to marry a rich man.

She meets her neighbor, Paul Varjak, who tries to help her. Eventually he learns that she was married to a much older man Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen), who wants her to return home to him in Louisiana, but she refuses, calling herself a "wild thing".

Paul and Holly get to know each other better and eventually he falls in love with her, though she backs off. She then decides to marry Jose da Silva Pereira, a rich Brazilian, and move to Brazil with him. Things go bad, however, once she is arrested for inadvertently assisting a Mafia boss in his secret dealings, given to her in code. Paul bails her out and they share a cab together.

The cab ride at the end of the film is the most famous Tiffany scene. Jose changes his mind about marrying Holly once he learns of her arrest, but she's not about to give up her ticket to Brazil. She lets her cat out onto the street, telling him to fend for himself. After this, Paul gets out of the cab. While doing so, he lectures her about how to find true happiness, whence she decides to leave the cab and look for the cat with him. The movie ends with a passionate kiss outside in the rain, once they find the cat Tiffany.