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Who’s in it: Cillian Murphy (right), Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea

What it’s about: Mascara-eyed Irish crossdresser Patrick (Murphy), a.k.a. Kitten, stumbles his way through the troubled 1960s and 1970s in Ireland and England in search of the mother who abandoned him.

Worth watching? (star)(star)

“Murphy’s attentiveness and sympathy fill the gaps in his character’s faulty design. … Murphy makes Patrick’s warmth and maturity more plausible than the material otherwise suggests. His performance does a lot more for ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ than the movie does for him.”