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Overview

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Director:
Joe Carnahan
Writer:
Joe Carnahan (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
16 October 1998 (USA) more
Tagline:
Every generation has a hero. more
Plot:
A Cherry Pontiac Lemans Convertible...Two Days...Two-Hundred & Fifty Grand. When your lemon lot hits... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
OK Tarantino retread. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Joe Carnahan ... Sid French
Dan Leis ... Bob Melba

Ken Rudulph ... FBI Agent Jared
Dan Harlan ... Danny Woo

Hugh McChord ... Mr. Reich
Kurt Johnson ... Hillbilly Sniper

Mark S. Allen ... FBI Agent Franks
Kellee Benedict ... FBI Agent Littel
Mike Maas ... Victor Drub / Dumpster Bum

Nick Fenske ... Mechanic
Mark Priolo ... Frank Priolo
Andrew Fowler ... Mike Carbuyer
Gloria Gómez ... Julie Carbuyer
Josephine Arreola ... Elda
Dave Booth ... Jerry
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence and pervasive language.
Runtime:
87 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:15 | USA:R | Iceland:16
Filming Locations:
Sacramento, California, USA

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Factual errors: There are several claims in the movie that the main car in the film was a 1963 Pontiac LeMans convertible. Yet, the car in the Movie was actually a 1964 Pontiac GTO convertible. On top of that, the Car on the Cover is a different generation GTO than the one in the movie. The GTO was not in existence in 1963. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Narc: Making the Deal (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Spreadin' My Love more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
OK Tarantino retread., 23 April 2003
Author: byght from Washington, DC

It amazes me the impact that two movies ("Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction") can have. Quentin Tarantino has become by far the most imitated director of his generation on the strength of those two movies.

"Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane" is one in a long, long string of Tarantino ripoffs, but it's certainly not a bad one (like "Two Days in the Valley," which made me want to puke). As the title suggests, it's high-energy, high-impact, and gritty. Actual, indie-film gritty, not Hollywood faux gritty. Still, the overwhelming unoriginality of the whole affair kind of bogs it down.

Carnahan has since attained his own identity and gone on to vastly better things, though: "Narc" is perhaps the best cop movie I have ever seen.

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