My Best Friend's Birthday

Name: My Best Friend's Birthday
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1 h 9 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Craig Hamann, Quentin Tarantino, Crystal Shaw Martell

19871987
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1h 9m

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Comedy

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.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.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.

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

4.4K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

10,802

886

Director
- Quentin Tarantino
Writers
- Craig Hamann
- Quentin Tarantino
Stars

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Trivia
Co-cinematographer Roger Avary later said of the film, "Had we ever finished the film it would have looked something like a sloppy version of She's Gotta Have It (1986); a miracle considering the budget. Contrary to legend, the rest of the film was not 'lost in a lab fire'. It was simply never finished due to loss of steam."

Quotes
Clarence Pool: See, I look at him, I'd wanna be him so bad - I mean, Elvis looked *good*. I mean, I'm no fag, but Elvis was good-lookin'.
[sigh]
Clarence Pool: I always said, you know, if, if I ever, I - had to fuck a guy? I mean, had to 'cause like, my life depended on it? I'd fuck Elvis.

Connections
Featured in Diminishing Returns: Quentin Tarantino Season: Vol. 1 (2018)

Soundtracks
I Walk the Line
Written and performed by Johnny Cash

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Not exactly GOOD - but interesting all the same

Based upon seeing what little footage remains of this movie, I don't think that the full-length version would have been a great movie. What's seen here is a jumble of different scenes that each advance the story very little. Tarantino clearly didn't yet have a full grasp of more proper ways to plot and execute a story. Still, despite this (and the very primative production values and acting), the footage is a fascinating cinematic document of sorts. The movie is full of ideas (and dialogue) that Tarantino later polished up and reused in other movies (primarily TRUE ROMANCE.) So while this is mostly amateur hour as a *movie*, it is very entertaining as a cinematic notebook.

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