Pulp Fiction (1994)

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Director:

Quentin Tarantino

Writers:

Quentin Tarantino (story), Roger Avary (story),

Stars:

John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson

Top 250 #5 | Won 1 Oscar. Another 63 wins & 47 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tim Roth	...	Pumpkin / Ringo
Amanda Plummer	...	Honey Bunny / Yolanda
Laura Lovelace	...	Waitress
John Travolta	...	Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Jules Winnfield
Phil LaMarr	...	Marvin
Frank Whaley	...	Brett
Burr Steers	...	Roger
Bruce Willis	...	Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames	...	Marsellus Wallace
Paul Calderon	...	Paul / English Bob
Bronagh Gallagher	...	Trudi
Rosanna Arquette	...	Jody
Eric Stoltz	...	Lance
Uma Thurman	...	Mia Wallace

Storyline

Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

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Plot Keywords:

drug addiction | nonlinear timeline | postmodern | n word | male nudity | 

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Taglines:

You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish French

Release Date:

14 October 1994 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Fiction pulpeuse

Filming Locations:

1435 Flower Street, Glendale, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£4,243,233 (UK) (11 November 1994)

Gross:

£10,734,320 (UK) (24 February 1995)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

154 min 168 min (special edition)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Quentin Tarantino hesitated over the choice between the character he was going to play: Jimmie or Lance. He ended up choosing Jimmie's role because he wanted to be behind the camera in Mia's overdose scene.

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Goofs

After the guy lying on the sofa in the apartment have been shot, he can clearly be seen breathing in the next shot when he is supposed to be dead.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Pumpkin: Forget it. Too risky. I'm through doing that shit.
Yolanda: You always say that. That same thing every time, "I'm through, never again, too dangerous".
Pumpkin: I know that's what I always say. I'm always right, too.
Yolanda: But you forget about it in a day or two.
Pumpkin: Yeah, well the days of me forgetting are over, and the days of me remembering have just begun.

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Crazy Credits

In the opening credits, the music changes as if it were on the radio just as the credit for "Music Supervisor" appears on the screen.

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Connections

Spoofed in Caption Fail Movies: Pulp Fiction (2014)

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Soundtracks

Misirlou
Written by Fred Wise, Milton Leeds, S.K. Russell, Nicholas Roubanis
Performed by Dick Dale and the Del Tones (as Dick Dale & His Del-Tones)
Courtesy of Rhino Records

User Reviews

One of the Best Film's I've Seen In A LONG Time... and still is

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is a terrific film. It also gets better with each viewing, especially if one of those happens to be on a big theatrical screen where all of the BIG compositions get bigger and more detailed. How much else is there to talk about it after all these years? It's filled with dynamite, sudden and always interesting action, great and naturally clever dialogue, and memorable characters. Also, the acting is always something to behold as by turns straightforward, over the top, subtle, and just downright menacing and spot-on. The directing is one of the strongest that we've seen from Tarantino, as he makes his choices in pacing with shots in unconventional ways but never in a way that would be distracting. And writing, already noted, has been copied by many, and only equaled by a select few.

The dance sequence. Samuel L. Jackson's superlative monologuing. It has loyalty among low lifes, and many other odd characters that are all bad and not one is a villain or hero. And somehow even after years of parody and terrible rip-offs, it holds its own and- as one can say after seeing it at a midnight screening- holds its audience as much as it had the countless times before they saw it (or if they are, the first time). The first time you're surprised, the second time you look for the clues or other ambiguity, and then the third time you laugh you head off. The fourth time... I'll leave to you.