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| One of the most iconic of the decade, Uma Thurman's bed-smoking and sexy stare on the dime store book cover-designed poster for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction |
Two well-dressed, quarrelsome middle men gangsters are out to reconquer a suitcase for their boss. A couple in love get ready to rob a diner. And Butch the boxer wants to escape with his French girlfriend.
Pulp Fiction is written and directed by Tennessean master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino (My Best Friend's Birthday (1987)), whose 3d feature it is. Roger Avary (Odd Jobs (1997, TV movie)) contributed story elements.
The chronologically out of order plot drifts forward strangely, but it is brilliantly devised and collected in what is certainly one of the best pictures of the 1990s.
A lustrous line of stars appear and unfold phenomenally in Tarantino's extremely well-sounding version of (movie world) Los Angeles: John Travolta (Primary Colors (1998)), Samuel L. Jackson (Shaft (2000)), Harvey Keitel (Saturn 3 (1980)), Maria de Medeiros (Mar (2018)) and especially Bruce Willis (Last Man Standing (1996)) are terrific. Willis' Butch is among his best performances.
Pulp Fiction is long but not too long. It is an electric masterpiece.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 8.5 mil. $
Box office: 213.9 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 25.16 times its cost)
[Pulp Fiction premiered 21 May (Cannes Film Festival, main competition) and runs 154 minutes. It was Miramax's first film after the company was bought by Disney. Willis was paid 800k $ for his performance; Travolta 150k $; Uma Thurman (Vatel (2000)) 300k $. Shooting took place from September - November 1993 in California, including in Los Angeles. The film opened #1 to a 9.3 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed #1 for another weekend and then spend another 3 weekends in the top 5 (#2-#4-#4), grossing 107.9 mil. $ (50.4 % of the total gross). Miramax reportedly spent 10 mil. $ marketing the film in North America. It was nominated for 7 Oscars, winning for Best Original Screenplay. It lost Best Actor (Travolta) to Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump; Supporting Actor (Jackson) to Martin Landau in Ed Wood; Supporting Actress (Thurman) to Dianne Wiest in Bullets over Broadway; Director to Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump; and Editing and Picture also to Forrest Gump. It also won 2/9 BAFTA nominations, 1/6 Golden Globe nominations, was nominated for a César award, won 2/3 David di Donatello nominations, 3 National Board of Review awards, the Palme d'Or in Cannes, and many other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 4/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. IMDb's users have rated the film in at #8 on the site's Top 250 list, sitting between The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Tarantino returned with ER (1995, TV-series), Four Rooms (1995, segment) and theatrically with Jackie Brown (1997). Travolta returned in White Man's Burden (1995); Jackson in The New Age (1994); Willis in North (1994); and Thurman in A Month by the Lake (1995). Pulp Fiction is certified fresh at 92 % with a 9.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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