Breakfast at Tiffany's

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US 1961, d Blake Edwards

Critics have argued that Hepburn was miscast in Breakfast At Tiffany's, and they're probably right. The film should have been hard hearted, a depiction of a morally compromised world, with a fragile whore as its heroine. Maybe, one day, someone will faithfully adapt Truman Capote's story and the movie's detractors will get to see a more 'honest' picture. Until then, the rest of us can wallow in a miraculous thing: the transformation of the mundane substance celluloid into the far more abstract substance, charm.

Hepburn looks and is fantastic every moment she's onscreen. More than any other piece of work in her filmography, this is her movie - it doesn't belong to Capote or even Blake Edwards. Composer Henry Mancini knew what he was talking about -

"'Moon River' was written for her. No one else had ever understood it so completely. There have been more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is unquestionably the greatest."