Pulp Fiction Movie

Pulp Fiction
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Run Time: 160 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1994
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
Genre/Type: Crime
Gangster Film
Crime Comedy
Ensemble Film
Producers: Lawrence Bender
Richard N. Gladstein
Bob Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein
Plot Synopsis by Leo Charney
Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and La jetée. The Oscar-winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that single-handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
John Travolta Vincent Vega Feb 18, 1954 in Englewood, NJ
Samuel L. Jackson Jules Winnfield Dec 21, 1948 in Washington, D.C.
Uma Thurman Mia Wallace Apr 29, 1970 in Boston, MA
Harvey Keitel The Wolf May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Bruce Willis Butch Coolidge Mar 19, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Tim Roth Pumpkin May 14, 1961 in London, England, UK
Amanda Plummer Honey Bunny Mar 23, 1957 in New York City, NY
Ving Rhames Marsellus Wallace May 12, 1959 in Harlem, New York, NY
Eric Stoltz Lance Sep 30, 1961 in Whittier, CA
Rosanna Arquette Jody Aug 10, 1959 in New York City, NY
Christopher Walken Capt. Koons Mar 31, 1943 in Astoria, Queens, NY
Maria de Medeiros Fabienne
Frank Whaley Brett Jul 20, 1963 in Syracuse, NY
Quentin Tarantino Jimmie Dimmick Mar 27, 1963 in Knoxville, TN
Angela Jones Esmeralda Villa Lobos
Peter Greene Zed
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Review by Lucia Bozzola
A critical sensation and a box-office hit, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) embedded its movie-made world of loquacious hit men and fateful coincidences into the popular consciousness, becoming one of the most influential films of the 1990s. Updating the hard-boiled crime film with postmodern aplomb, and twisting movie time as adroitly as Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino weaves a morality play through a pop culture fun house drawn from sources as disparate as 1950s and 1970s kitsch, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, boxing flicks, Hong Kong action movies, and Kiss Me Deadly (1955). The surreal yet realistic atmosphere, long takes, and wittily pop-literate non-stop dialogue emotionally engage the viewer in the minutiae of the characters' experience even as the film also comments on their status as pulp creations, rendering the moments of shockingly baroque violence simultaneously humorous and ghastly. Winner of numerous critics' prizes and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for John Travolta's career-resurrecting turn as Vincent, and Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson's furiously philosophical Jules; Tarantino and Roger Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. None of its many imitators has yet come close to matching Pulp Fiction's impact.
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