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Overview

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Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Writers:
Quentin Tarantino (character The Bride) &
Uma Thurman (character The Bride) ...
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Release Date:
10 October 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Thriller more
Tagline:
In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill more
Plot:
The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 41 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(425 articles)
Brad Pitt's "Basterd". Uma's "Bride" Could Take 'Em.
 (From FilmExperience. 10 July 2009, 12:01 PM, PDT)

Inglourious Basterds New Poster & Soundtrack Info
 (From Screen Rant. 10 July 2009, 11:00 AM, PDT)

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Gorgeous! more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Kill Bill (USA) (informal short title)
Kill Bill Part 1 (USA) (informal title)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (USA) (alternative spelling)
Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume One (USA) (promotional title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content.
Runtime:
111 min | Japan:112 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Taiwan:R-18 | Malaysia:18SG (re-rating) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Iceland:16 | Germany:18 | Hungary:18 | USA:NC-17 (Special Edition DVD) | South Korea:18 (re-rating) (cut) (DVD rating) (uncut) | Singapore:R(A) | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Brazil:18 | Canada:16+ (Québec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Israel:16 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:R-15 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Poland:15 | Portugal:M/16 | South Africa:18 | South Korea:Limited (original rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #40294)
Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas, USA more
Company:
Miramax Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Julie Dreyfus, who plays Sofie Fatale in the movie, is seen on the Tokyo billboards advertising Red Apple Cigarettes. Red Apple is a fictional brand that appears in every Tarantino movie. more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: No drug company makes an injectable medication that is red. When you inject a medication, be it inter-muscular [IM] or intravenous [IV], when you insert the needle before injecting, you must draw the plunger back a little bit looking for blood in the syringe and press the plunger down to remove air, as bubbles in the blood stream can give you much pain. (Intramuscular injections of B-12 are a light red, but this would not be used to murder someone.) However, Elle didn't need to be injecting a drug into the Bride's IV. Basically, *anything* injected into a vein that wasn't created for that purpose would kill somebody. Even some drugs that are safe to inject into tissues could kill a person intravenously if the dosage were changed. That red fluid could have been any number of liquids drawn up into a syringe - it didn't have to be a drug. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
[cocks pistol]
Bill: masochistic.
The Bride: Bill... it's your baby...
[BLAM!]
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Movie Connections:
References "Honey West" (1965) more
Soundtrack:
Music Box Dancer more

FAQ

Why is the bride allowed to carry her sword with her on the plane?
Are we really supposed to believe that she can stay in a dead guy's truck for 13 hours without the cops finding her?
Why is Hattori Hanzo upset with Bill?
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198 out of 315 people found the following comment useful:-
Gorgeous!, 1 March 2005
10/10
Author: Emma from Sweden

A lot of people have come up to me and said "How can you love Quentin that much, he is just too extreme!" or "Oh come on, Kill Bill is just SO not realistic.." Yes. No.

Mr. Quentin Tarantino is rather extreme, yes, and it's lovely! And No. Kill Bill is not realistic, but it's not meant to be realistic! Just like... Lord of the Rings, that's not realistic either! But because it has clear unreal elements, like wizards, it's acceptable?

You don't go to see Kill Bill, or any other Q.T-film to see "Stepmom", in the same way you don't go to a Marilyn Manson concert hoping that they will play some Spice Girls..

Kill Bill, both volume 1 and 2, is absolutely gorgeous! The art direction is beautiful! The camera angles are perfect... just Gorgeous! The lighting, the sound, the dialogs... and of course, the details! No one works with small details the way Quentin does. I must also say that the soundtrack is brilliant and the whole film is just so well casted! Uma Thurman is perfect in the leading role, Darryl Hannah has never been this good before, ever! And Chiaki Kuriyama, even though she has a quite small role, is excellent, even better than she is in "Battle Royale". David Carradine is painfully perfect, Michael Madsen is ALWAYS excellent, but never as good as when he works with Tarantino. I must also say that Sonny Chiba was great. I've never been a big fan of Vivica A Fox until now, and I used to think that Lucy Liu was just your average actor but she turned out to be fierce. Pretty much everyone who is in this film is ten times better than they've ever been.

But above all things, Kill Bill is artistic, beautiful... Perfect colors, perfect everything... gotta love it.

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