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Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Writers:
Craig Hamann (written by)
Quentin Tarantino (written by)
Genre:
Comedy | Short more
Plot:
It's Mickey's Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that's when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he'll never forget. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Thank God Fate Eschewed This Film For Reservoir Dogs more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Craig Hamann ... Mickey Burnett

Quentin Tarantino ... Clarence Pool
Crystal Shaw ... Misty
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Allen Garfield ... Entertainment Magnate
Al Harrell ... Clifford
Brenda Hillhouse ... Wife

Linda Kaye ... Ex-Girlfriend
Stevo Polyi ... Deejay
Alan Sanborn ... Nutmeg, Radio Station Receptionist
Rich Turner ... Oliver Brandon
Rowland Wafford ... Lenny Otis
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:69 min | 34 min (surviving fragments)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film was completed, but the final reel was destroyed in a lab fire that broke out during editing. The surviving part of the film was shown in part to a small crowd in early 1987. more
Quotes:
Oliver Brandon: [coming out of Mickey's bathroom, covering his nose] Man, whoo! Talk about dropping a cheese bomb!
[sniff]
Oliver Brandon: I wouldn't go in there for about an hour if I was you.
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Movie Connections:
References Little Cigars (1973) more
Soundtrack:
Ballroom Blitz more

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1 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Thank God Fate Eschewed This Film For Reservoir Dogs, 4 August 2008
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Author: jzappa from United States

Tarantino's would-be debut film fortunately was not his actual debut film. There are a few fun scenes, but telling by the thirty-five minutes from which we're able to discern, his proclaimed "Martin & Lewis homage" is a forgettable, homophobic implosion of his pop culture-consumed mind.

At least it's SOMETHING different from Tarantino in one respect, and that is that it's a comedy. There are a few laughs but not enough even for thirty-five minutes. However I do admire the fact that even though this makes no exception to Tarantino's filmography of nothing but homages to other movies, it bears no resemblance to a Martin & Lewis film at all. So he did manage to branch out further than an overt mock-up of the framework of what he intended to pay.

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