“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 prostitute 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 moving finale.
The film opens with Holly Golightly looking at a display at Tiffany’s in Manhattan. She lives in a small apartment with no furniture and a nameless cat. She works as a prostitute and longs to marry a rich man.
She meets her neighbor, Paul Varjak, who tries to help her. Eventually, she learns that she was married to a much older man, Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen), who wants her to return to her home in Louisiana, but she refuses, calling herself a “wild thing.” .
Paul and Holly get to know each other better and he eventually falls for her, though she backs down. She then decides to marry José da Silva Pereira, a wealthy Brazilian, and move to Brazil with him. However, things go wrong once she is arrested for inadvertently assisting a mob boss in her secret deals, which are given to her in code. Paul rescues her and they share a cab together.
The taxi ride at the end of the film is the most famous scene. José changes his mind about marrying Holly once he finds out about her arrest, but she is unwilling to give up her ticket to Brazil. He lets her cat out into the street and tells her to fend for herself. After this, Paul gets out of the cab. As she does so, he lectures her on how to find true happiness for her, so she decides to leave the taxi and go find the cat with him. The movie ends with a passionate kiss outside in the rain, once they find the cat.
