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Pulp Fiction (WS Collector's Edition) (2 Discs) (Widescreen) (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
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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 films noirs 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. Leo Charney, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Crime & Espionage
- Category: Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film, Gangster Film
- Theme: Cons and Scams, Hired Killers, Hostage Situations, Thrill Crime
- Release Date: August 20, 2002
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Humor, Adult Situations, Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Strong Sexual Content, Substance Abuse
- Studio: Miramax
- Lead Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis
- Supporting Actors: Don Blakely, Phil LaMarr, Kathy Griffin, Lawrence Bender, Joseph Pilato, Karen Maruyama, Stephen Hibbert, Linda Kaye, Paul Calderon, Steve Buscemi, Susan Griffiths, Julia Sweeney, Duane Whitaker, Bronagh Gallagher, Emil Sitka, Rich Turner, Dick Miller, Alexis Arquette, Brenda Hillhouse, Eric Clark
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 2 hr 34 min
- Language: English, French
- Subtitle Language: Spanish
- Format: DVD
Awards
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Awards: Academy Awards (1), Cannes Film Festival Film Festival (1), Golden Globe Awards (1)
Winner: Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay 1994, Quentin Tarantino
Nominations: Academy Awards (6), Golden Globe Awards (4)
Nominee: Academy Awards Best Picture 1994, Lawrence Bender
Nominee: Academy Awards Best Director 1994, Quentin Tarantino
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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. Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
