Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

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Pulp Fiction
Overview:
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Cast:

• Vincent Vega: John Travolta
• Jules Winnfield: Samuel L. Jackson
• Mia Wallace: Uma Thurman
• Butch Coolidge: Bruce Willis
• Marsellus Wallace: Ving Rhames
• The Wolf: Harvey Keitel
• Lance: Eric Stoltz
• Pumpkin: Tim Roth
• Honey Bunny: Amanda Plummer
• Fabienne: Maria de Medeiros
• Jimmie Dimmick: Quentin Tarantino
• Captain Koons: Christopher Walken
• Jody: Rosanna Arquette
• Zed: Peter Greene
• Maynard: Duane Whitaker
• Esmarelda Villalobos: Angela Jones
• Marvin: Phil LaMarr
• Buddy Holly: Steve Buscemi
• Trudi: Bronagh Gallagher
• Waitress: Laura Lovelace
• Brett: Frank Whaley
• Roger: Burr Steers
• Paul: Paul Calderon
• Ed Sullivan: Jerome Patrick Hoban
• Page for Phillip Morris: Michael Gilden
• Ricky Nelson: Gary Shorelle
• Marilyn Monroe: Susan Griffiths
• James Dean: Eric Clark
• Dean Martin: Joseph Pilato
• Jerry Lewis: Brad Blumenthal
• Mamie van Doren: Lorelei Leslie
• Hold Hands You Lovebirds (archive footage): Emil Sitka
• Mrs. Coolidge – Butch’s Mother: Brenda Hillhouse
• Young Butch: Chandler Lindauer
• Klondike: Sy Sher
• Sportscaster #1 – Coffee Shop: Robert Ruth
• Sportscaster #2: Rich Turner
• Wilson’s Trainer: Don Blakely
• Dead Floyd Wilson: Carl Allen
• Gawker #1: Karen Maruyama
• Kathy Griffin: Kathy Griffin
• Pedestrian / Bonnie Dimmick: Venessia Valentino
• Shot Woman: Linda Kaye
• The Gimp: Stephen Hibbert
• Fourth Man: Alexis Arquette
• Raquel: Julia Sweeney
• Long Hair Yuppy Scum: Lawrence Bender
• Winston Wolfe’s Girlfriend at Party (uncredited): Cie Allman
• Bar Tender (uncredited): Rene Beard
• Drug Dealer (uncredited): Glendon Rich
• Woman in Bathroom (uncredited): Ani Sava
• Diner Patron #2 (uncredited): Richard Rossi

Crew:

• Production Design: David Wasco
• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
• Editor: Sally Menke
• Art Direction: Charles Collum
• Executive Producer: Danny DeVito
• Casting: Gary M. Zuckerbrod
• Casting: Ronnie Yeskel
• Costume Design: Betsy Heimann
• Production Manager: Paul Hellerman
• Producer: Lawrence Bender
• Executive Producer: Michael Shamberg
• Director of Photography: Andrzej Sekula
• Executive Producer: Stacey Sher
• Gaffer: Vance Trussell
• Special Effects Assistant: Kevin McTurk
• Special Effects Assistant: Andrew Ambrose
• Co-Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein
• Co-Executive Producer: Richard N. Gladstein
• Music Supervisor: Kathy Nelson
• Music Supervisor: Karyn Rachtman
• Makeup Artist: Michelle Bühler
• Set Costumer: Patia Prouty
• Wigmaker: Bill Fletcher
• Assistant Editor: Donald Likovich
• Casting Associate: Ruth Lambert
• Casting: Jeff Olan
• Key Hair Stylist: Audrey Futterman-Stern
• Electrician: Bruce Jagoda
• Stunt Coordinator: Ken Lesco
• Costume Supervisor: Jacqueline Aronson
• Assistant Costume Designer: Mary Claire Hannan
• Thanks: Jennifer Beals
• Post Production Supervisor: Heidi Vogel
• First Assistant Camera: Ziad Doueiri
• Sound Editor: Dean Beville
• Color Timer: Mike Stanwick
• Editorial Staff: Andrew Dickler
• Hairstylist: Linda Arnold
• Driver: Alonzo Brown Jr.
• Construction Foreman: Ray Maxwell
• Set Designer: Daniel Bradford
• Camera Operator: Michael Levine
• Key Grip: Mark Shane Davis
• Steadicam Operator: Bob Gorelick
• Painter: Giuseppe Maini III
• Lead Painter: Marc Gillson
• Location Scout: Adam Silver
• Set Dressing Artist: Joseph W. Grafmuller
• Assistant Art Director: Samantha Gore
• Construction Coordinator: Brian Markey
• Art Department Coordinator: Emily Wolfe
• Transportation Coordinator: Derek Raser
• First Assistant Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel
• Assistant Sound Editor: Dana Gustafson
• First Assistant Director: Francis R. Mahony III
• Boom Operator: Larry Scharf
• Supervising Sound Editor: Stephen Hunter Flick
• Grip: Chris Ahern
• Best Boy Electric: Anthony Hall
• Unit Publicist: Deborah Wuliger
• Carpenter: Gary L. Brennan
• Craft Service: Derek Hurd
• Set Production Assistant: Iain Jones
• Property Master: Jonathan R. Hodges
• Sound Recordist: Matthew C. Beville
• Stand In: Cameron
• Rigging Gaffer: Marc Meisenheimer
• Production Sound Mixer: Ken King
• Makeup Effects: Thomas L. Bellissimo
• Script Supervisor: Martin Kitrosser
• Music Editor: Rolf Johnson
• Production Coordinator: Anna-Lisa Nilsson
• Leadman: Peter Borck
• Post Production Assistant: Ben Parker
• Security: Ruben Cortez
• Special Effects Coordinator: Larry Fioritto
• Sound: Rick Ash
• Thanks: Linda R. Chen
• Thanks: Agnès B.
• Co-Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein
• Assistant Music Supervisor: Billy Gottlieb
• Thanks: Cathryn Jaymes
• Stand In: Rory Dauson
• Assistant Music Supervisor: Kristen Becht
• Thanks: Lou Arkoff
• Thanks: Emanuel Steward
• Thanks: Bill Unger
• Thanks: Stephen Martines
• Thanks: Ricardo Mestres
• Thanks: Mike Simpson
• Thanks: Scott Spiegel
• Thanks: Lee Stollman
• Story: Roger Avary
• ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris
• Foley Mixer: Ezra Dweck
• Location Assistant: Haley Sweet
• Assistant Property Master: John Felgate
• ADR Mixer: Jeff Courtie
• Second Assistant Director: Kelly Kiernan
• Foley Artist: Catherine Rowe
• Second Assistant Camera: Gregory C. Smith
• Assistant Decorator: Liz Chiz
• Swing: Steve Ingrassia
• Stunt Double: Terry Jackson
• Camera Loader: Angelo de la Cruz
• Graphic Designer: Chris Cullen
• Post Production Coordinator: Kara Mazzola
• Music Consultant: Chuck Kelley
• Music Coordinator: Mary Ramos
• Key Rigging Grip: Michael Stocks
• Production Secretary: Bradley Morris
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Cheryl Cain
• Assistant Accountant: Zane
• Assistant Craft Service: Michael Haddad
• Charge Scenic Artist: Chris L. Winslow
• Second Second Assistant Director: John W. Hyde Jr.
• Best Boy Grip: Robbie Meckler
• Dolly Grip: Alan Parr
• Assistant Location Manager: John A. Johnston
• Costumer: Kristin Dangl
• Supervising ADR Editor: Judee Flick

Catogories:
Thriller,Crime
This is one magnificent item.

You won’t know the facts until you’ve seen the fiction.
Language:
English,Español,Français
Production:
United States of America
Company:
Miramax,A Band Apart,Jersey Films
Popularity:
117.741
Date:
1994-09-10
Year:
1994

• Wuchak: ***The cream of the crop of quirky crime thrillers***

  RELEASED IN 1994 and written & directed by Quentin Tarantino, “Pulp Fiction” is a drama/thriller/black comedy about two hit men in Los Angeles (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), their mob boss & his wife (Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman) and a champion boxer who incurs the wrath of the boss (Bruce Willis).

  The lurid, droll tale is told in a non-linear fashion, but it’s easy to follow and the final act ties everything up nicely. The dialogue’s witty and the story maintains your attention, despite its 2 hour and 34 minutes runtime. The film’s stylish and pulsates with energy and innovation; it understandably influenced many 90’s films and beyond.

  I put off seeing this iconic picture until almost twenty years after its release because the protagonists are all big city gangsters or somehow involved with ’em. These are lawless people who would kill a person without batting an eye. Their god is money or hedonism. Let ’em shoot each other to smithereens for all I care. But if you can look beyond this and the constant profanities, the film’s worth your time. What redeems it for me, besides the all-around entertaining movie-making, is that it’s a tale of redemption and the high price of stubborn folly: The wise person recognizes God’s grace and responds accordingly while the fool doesn’t and blithely goes on his (doomed) way. Once a person receives grace they naturally extend it to others. There are additional gems spiced throughout.

  Both Travolta and Jackson shine here. There are several other celebrities on hand, like Harvey Keitel, with many in cameos, e.g. Christopher Walken; not to mention several formidable females, like curvy Julia Sweeney (Raquel), cutie Maria de Medeiros (Fabienne), Angela Jones (Esmarelda) and voluptuous Susan Griffiths (Marilyn Monroe).

  BOTTOM LINE: If you’re in the mood for a quirky crime drama/thriller you can’t go wrong with “Pulp Fiction.” It’s top-of-the-line in every way, including the subtext.

  THE FILM WAS SHOT in the Greater Los Angeles area. ADDITIONAL WRITER: Roger Avary.

  GRADE: A

• Erick Cabral: Insane movie!
  One of the bests(if not the best) Tarantino’s movies!
• CinemaSerf: Ving Rhames (“Wallace”) is the kingpin who provides the loosest of templates for a couple of inter-twining tales that are amusing, bizarre and sometimes down right dangerous before we get a sort of alignment at the conclusion. “Winnfield” (Samuel L. Jackson) and “Vincent Vega” (John Travolta) are a pair of dapper enforcers, despatched to retrieve a stolen briefcase. Though their manner may be precise, the execution of their tasks are usually more hit and miss, definitely messy – and frequently requiring of the specialist clean-up services of “Mr. Wolf” (Harvey Keitel). “Vega” is also charged by his boss with looking after his cocaine-loving wife “Mia” (Uma Thurman) and that flirts with dancing and disaster too. Meantime, ageing boxer “Butch” (Bruce Willis) is supposed to help the boss by taking an early dive in a fight. Instead he manages to kill his opponent! Soon he is intent on fleeing town, well at least he tries before he and “Wallace” end up being the playthings of some interesting characters who keep their own leather-clad gimp locked in a box… It’s really difficult to make sense of the narrative in writing. It flows really well, but at differing speeds and in several different directions at once. The stories are violent but delivered in an almost tongue-in cheek way. The dance between “Mia” and “Vega” has become the stuff of cinema legend; there is loads of chemistry – especially between Travolta and an on form Jackson who really does deliver his biblical verses with a puritanical – an lethal – zeal; Willis is as good here as he ever was and you cannot but feel sorry for poor old “Pumpkin” (Tim Roth) and his pal “Honey Bunny” (Amanda Plummer) whose habit of committing petty robberies when they realise that nobody ever thinks to hit a restaurant, all goes awry. The dialogue is cleverly targeted, with wit and pith but also used sparingly when the first rate soundtrack is allowed to let everyone come up for air. Tarantino himself features towards the end as just about everybody gets their just desserts. This is a classy and sharp piece of enigmatic and enjoyable cinema held together well by a creative and visionary director who appreciates how to get the best of a cast that know how to entertain!
• crastana: Tarantino is the most overrated director of our times, all his films are silly but people say they are masterpieces, perhaps they are but not for the right way, the only good thing about Tarantino is that he isn’t afraid of revenge for the sake of making his characters good.
• alksjalksj: really fun to watch and the attention to detail is great
• Filipe Manuel Neto: **One of the unavoidable movies to know Tarantino… but I think it’s not as incredible as it is sometimes said to be.**

  This was one of the films that consolidated Tarantino’s career and made him one of the “superstar” directors who, whenever he releases a film, whether good or bad, attracts a legion to the cinema. I was never a fan of his, and I don’t think I will be. He made some films that I liked and others that I hated. I wouldn’t call it regular, a “safe bet”, but we can’t deny it, it’s original, true to his style and doesn’t seem concerned about pleasing anyone.

  The film follows more than one plot: we have a couple of violent bandits who try to rob a cafeteria, we have a boxer at the end of his career who has to flee after winning a fight he had agreed he would lose, we have a couple of murderers in the pay of a mobster who are tasked with recovering a stolen suitcase, and we also have the capricious girlfriend of that same mobster, whose boredom forces her darling to assign one of his assassins to babysit for her. What unites them all? In addition to the fact that they naturally intersect, they are all part of the same violent, brutal and marginal universe.

  For many, this film is one of the best of the 90’s. I would never consider it as such, that is, for me, an exaggeration. It’s reasonably good, it’s gained cult status, it has fans, but it’s not a masterpiece, not for me. It’s not a boring film, it doesn’t tire us out and the various sub-plots are intertwined very well, with skill and elegance. There’s a lot of violence, heavy slang and drugs, and that can be really hard at times, I felt that too. However, this heavier language, drugs and violence end up being a natural part of the underworld of crime and marginality where the characters move, so it’s something we can count on right from the start. And there are no sympathetic characters who can arouse some empathy, so it doesn’t matter to us whether they live or die in the most unpleasant ways (and some of them suffer a lot).

  These are all qualities, and will be even more valued by those who are more familiar with the “pulp” literary subgenre. I’m not, it’s not part of my culture, and I even had to go look it up on the Internet to understand what it was, and what its characteristics were. Despite that, there are a few things about this film that I really didn’t like or felt over the top. One of them is the dialogues. There are scenes with a lot of dialogues, dialogues without any interest, which can dwell on boring topics, just because. One of them, right at the beginning of the film, is about foot massages, just to give a small example. There are many scenes that seem overly drawn out due to these endless dialogues. I also think the film has too many images of bare feet. Tarantino gained fame as a fetishist, but he always said he wasn’t… watching this film makes it hard to believe him. And one of the characters, who is a murderer, makes a very long quote from the Bible… it’s the kind of “literature” that I think an underworld murderer probably wouldn’t know by heart.

  The actors are very good, we have several notable names: John Travolta is excellent in the role he was given, with that black suit and his hair soaked in oil. Samuel L. Jackson is not far behind, and Uma Thurman is fantastic. I would say that, at least, Thurman and Travolta achieve performances at the best level of their respective careers in this film. Bruce Willis isn’t bad, but he’s just not that interesting. I enjoyed seeing my countrywoman Maria de Medeiros in her only major international role, I’m sorry she couldn’t go further, but that’s life. Tarantino also appears in the film, and it would have been much better if he hadn’t. He’s a ham as an actor.

  Technically, the film has many qualities, starting with the excellent cinematography, with vivid colors and good lighting. There are excellent action scenes, for all tastes, and the soundtrack makes good use of several musical themes that we know very well.