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About this movie

Genres:
Crime, Drama
Language:
English
Running time:
2:34:29
Partner rating:
R
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. John Travolta Vincent Vega
  2. Samuel L. Jackson Jules Winnfield
  3. Uma Thurman Mia Wallace
  4. Tim Roth Pumpkin
  5. Eric Stoltz Lance
  6. Bruce Willis Butch Coolidge
  7. Ving Rhames Marsellus Wallace
  8. Harvey Keitel The Wolf
  9. Amanda Plummer Honey Bunny
  10. Rosanna Arquette Jody

Directors

  1. Quentin Tarantino

Producers

  1. Lawrence Bender

Writers

  1. Quentin Tarantino
  2. Roger Avery

Pulp Fiction


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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 animatio... 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.
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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

95%Tomatometer score: 95% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune If you smile at David Mamet's dialogue, you'll laugh out loud at the words of Quentin Tarantino. Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly Tarantino's dialogue, with its densely propulsive, almost lawyerly fervor, its peppery comic blend of literacy and funk, has more snap and fight than most directors' action scenes. Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine Tarantino's guilty secret, which the international critics should have noticed, is that his films are cultural hybrids. Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming. Full review External link
  5. Positive review
    Todd McCarthy, Variety A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture. Full review External link

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    Dancing at Jack Rabbit Slim's - Pulp Fiction (5/12) Movie CLIP (1994) HD

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