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Four Rooms

  • 19951995
  • RR
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
104K
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Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Valeria Golino, Tim Roth, Marisa Tomei, and Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1995)
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  • Comedy

Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.

IMDb RATING
6.7/10
104K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,185
474
  • Directors
    • Allison Anders(segment The Missing Ingredient)
    • Alexandre Rockwell(segment The Wrong Man)
    • Robert Rodriguez(segment The Misbehavers)
  • Writers
    • Allison Anders(segment The Missing Ingredient)
    • Alexandre Rockwell(segment The Wrong Man)
    • Robert Rodriguez(segment The Misbehavers)
  • Stars
    • Tim Roth
    • Antonio Banderas
    • Sammi Davis
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Allison Anders(segment The Missing Ingredient)
    • Alexandre Rockwell(segment The Wrong Man)
    • Robert Rodriguez(segment The Misbehavers)
  • Writers
    • Allison Anders(segment The Missing Ingredient)
    • Alexandre Rockwell(segment The Wrong Man)
    • Robert Rodriguez(segment The Misbehavers)
  • Stars
    • Tim Roth
    • Antonio Banderas
    • Sammi Davis
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 211User reviews
    • 58Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

    Videos2

    Four Rooms
    Trailer 1:29
    Four Rooms
    How 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Connects the TarantinoVerse
    Clip 5:09
    How 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Connects the TarantinoVerse

    Photos108

    Antonio Banderas in Four Rooms (1995)
    Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Willis, Jennifer Beals, and Paul Calderon in Four Rooms (1995)
    Tim Roth and Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1995)
    Four Rooms (1995)
    Four Rooms (1995)
    Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Tim Roth, and Marisa Tomei in Four Rooms (1995)
    Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Tim Roth, and Marisa Tomei in Four Rooms (1995)
    Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Valeria Golino, Tim Roth, Marisa Tomei, and Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1995)
    Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Valeria Golino, Tim Roth, Marisa Tomei, and Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1995)
    Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Valeria Golino, Tim Roth, Marisa Tomei, and Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1995)
    Tim Roth in Four Rooms (1995)
    Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Valeria Golino, Tim Roth, and Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1995)

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    Tim Roth
    Tim Roth
    • Ted the Bellhopas Ted the Bellhop
    Antonio Banderas
    Antonio Banderas
    • Man (segment "The Misbehavers")as Man (segment "The Misbehavers")
    Sammi Davis
    Sammi Davis
    • Jezebel (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Jezebel (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Amanda De Cadenet
    Amanda De Cadenet
    • Diana (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Diana (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Valeria Golino
    Valeria Golino
    • Athena (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Athena (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Madonna
    Madonna
    • Elspeth (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Elspeth (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Ione Skye
    Ione Skye
    • Eva (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Eva (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Lili Taylor
    Lili Taylor
    • Raven (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Raven (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Alicia Witt
    Alicia Witt
    • Kiva (segment "The Missing Ingredient")as Kiva (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
    Jennifer Beals
    Jennifer Beals
    • Angela (segments "The Wrong Man", "The Man from Hollywood")as Angela (segments "The Wrong Man", "The Man from Hollywood")
    David Proval
    David Proval
    • Sigfried (segment "The Wrong Man")as Sigfried (segment "The Wrong Man")
    Lana McKissack
    Lana McKissack
    • Sarah (segment "The Misbehavers")as Sarah (segment "The Misbehavers")
    Patricia Vonne
    Patricia Vonne
    • Corpse (segment "The Misbehavers")as Corpse (segment "The Misbehavers")
    • (as Patricia Vonne Rodriguez)
    Tamlyn Tomita
    Tamlyn Tomita
    • Wife (segment "The Misbehavers")as Wife (segment "The Misbehavers")
    Danny Verduzco
    Danny Verduzco
    • Juancho (segment "The Misbehavers")as Juancho (segment "The Misbehavers")
    Salma Hayek
    Salma Hayek
    • TV Dancing Girl (segment "The Misbehavers")as TV Dancing Girl (segment "The Misbehavers")
    Paul Calderon
    Paul Calderon
    • Norman (segment "The Man from Hollywood")as Norman (segment "The Man from Hollywood")
    Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino
    • Chester (segment "The Man from Hollywood")as Chester (segment "The Man from Hollywood")
    • Directors
      • Allison Anders(segment The Missing Ingredient)
      • Alexandre Rockwell(segment The Wrong Man)
      • Robert Rodriguez(segment The Misbehavers)
    • Writers
      • Allison Anders(segment The Missing Ingredient)
      • Alexandre Rockwell(segment The Wrong Man)
      • Robert Rodriguez(segment The Misbehavers)
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    Storyline

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    This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager. —Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
    • neo screwball comedy
    • anthology film
    • gagged woman
    • tied to a chair
    • weapon
    • 99 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • A new comedy compliments of the house.
    • Genre
      • Comedy
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for pervasive strong language, sexuality and some drug use
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The reason Bruce Willis is not credited is because he violated SAG rules for acting in this film for no money. He appeared for fun and as a favor to Quentin Tarantino, and acting for free violated SAG rules. SAG agreed not to sue Willis if his name was not included in the credits.
    • Goofs
      The hotel's vintage telephone switchboard adds an element of comic chaos, but it is not consistently used. Ted answers calls to the front desk by pushing cables into jacks, but Sarah (the little girl in "The Misbehavers") is able to dial another room directly. Also, when the partying guys call and don't know what room they are in, Ted should be able to get the room number right off the switchboard.
    • Quotes

      Angela: Everybody starts out as strangers, Ted. It's where we end up that counts.

    • Crazy credits
      Bruce Willis does not apear in the credits but his hairstylist does
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinemania: Ypalliloi en drasei! (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Sentimental Journey
      Written by Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer

      Performed by Juan García Esquivel (as Esquivel)

      Courtesy of The RCA Records label of BMG Music

    User reviews211

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Deserved better than it got
    It's a pity that the critics gave 'Four Rooms' as hard a time as they did back in 1995, because, for everything that can be said to be wrong with it, it really does sparkle with creativity and a desire to stand out from the rest of the crowd. And let's face it, there was enough popular talent involved, including Alison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and, last but not least, Quentin Tarantino, for it to have been hailed as an instant cult classic. Instead, it was bashed into submission and retreated very quickly to the back of nearly everyone's resume. With retrospect most of this reproach was probably ill-deserved - 'Four Rooms' does have its blatant moments of weakness, but then again so do a lot of the more half-baked cookie-cutter comedies which have somehow garnered more admiration than this. On the whole it's a very unusual and interesting combination - an offbeat, frisky and strangely feel-good comedy with some sinister undertones and lots of weird, intricate little details. Consisting of four 20-minute segments, each assembled by a different director's hands, it takes us through the various happenings inside separate rooms of the same hotel on New Year's Eve, as experienced by Ted, the only bellhop still left standing for the night shift. There is the slight feeling of inconsistency in moving from one directing style to the next, and a couple of attempts to interconnect the segments are a little self-contradictory. Some of it works and some it doesn't, but the end result is an episodic anthology that, if nothing too spectacular, still proves itself to be very likable in the long run.

    'The Missing Ingredient' and 'the Wrong Man' are often credited with constituting the weaker half of the film, and I can't really say I disagree. 'The Missing Ingredient' tries hard to be risqué, but falls pretty short - for a story concerning a coven of bare-breasted witches trying to extract an unwilling man's semen for use in a ritual, it's remarkably innocuous and fluffy, and the visual effects only add a layer of tackiness to boot. 'The Wrong Man' is a tad more snappy and sports some stylish direction (the shot where Sigfried grabs the ringing telephone is right-on), but is ultimately swallowed up in its frenzied editing. We can vaguely understand what's happening in this segment (if not, then Ted does drop a pretty big hint later on in the film), but it makes itself unnecessarily incoherent, with bizarre imagery that adds nothing but extra confusion (the baby flashback, anyone?). It's almost as though Alexandre Rockwell isn't sure whether he wants us to be in on the whole set-up with Sigfried and Angela, or confused and in the dark like Ted, and in the end tries to accommodate both perspectives, which doesn't really wash.

    It's once we reach the second half that the true quality really starts to seep its way in, and the film suddenly becomes very rewarding. 'The Misbehaviours' is a spirited little contribution that combines a moderate dose of macabre darkness with its cartoon-like innocence. Antonio Banderas certainly hits a good spot as the no-nonsense father who appoints Ted to keep an eye on his two young children while he's out, whilst the children themselves are rebellious but not irritating, all making for a surprisingly sharp and sophisticated slice of knockabout. 'The Man from Hollywood', meanwhile, is equally brilliant - Tarantino's vibrant, well-scripted take on Roald Dahl's chilling short story, 'the Man from the South', which pits Ted in the same room as cocky Hollywood director Chester Rush (and it's always a treat to see Quentin himself tackle such a winking, self-depreciating role). It manages to be tense and enjoyable, with the usual smart direction that any Tarantino fan should be able to appreciate. Overall, there's enough vitality in these particular segments to just about redeem the shakiness of the first half.

    Besides, we have Tim Roth playing our hapless protagonist throughout, and, yes, that is a lot. He proves himself to be very capable in a comic performance, bringing enough gentle magnetism to his character Ted the bellhop, through his good intentions, perseverance and various neurotic mannerisms, to get us genuinely attached to him. It is hard not to come away with the impression that all four directors had a slightly different take on Ted's disposition - he goes from being timid and impressionable to obtuse and jumpy, then highly-strung and a little devious, and finally composed and relatively rational - but Roth does well in single-handedly bridging these gaps and, with the many mishaps his character has to endure over the course of the night, ensures that all changes in temper seem understandable. He retains his good-natured lovability for the entire running time, and, for anyone who can really relate to poor Ted (like yours truly), he'll have you rooting for him to the very satisfying end.

    To my knowledge, there was never any other film quite like 'Four Rooms' and, judging by just how unwelcome this one was made to feel when it arrived, there probably won't be another for quite some time. It remains an ambitious and not entirely successful little sleeper, but has a good deal going for it nonetheless, and I urge all fans of Tarantino, Rodriguez and Roth in particular not to be put off by the bad press and to give it a chance. Who knows? One day, it might just make a fresh start and find the cult audience that appreciates it yet.
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    • Release date
      • December 25, 1995 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Four Rooms and a Hotel
    • Filming locations
      • Chateau Marmont - 8221 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Miramax
      • A Band Apart
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $4,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $4,257,354
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $427,733
      • Dec 25, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,257,354
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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