PULP FICTION (1994)

MORGAN'S RATING

The film initiates with two small-time thieves, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant. The film then shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, two hit men for the well known and feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge. An all-star cast make up director Quentin Tarantino's epic, award-winning masterpiece.

John Travolta (Vincent Vega), Samuel L. Jackson (Jules Winnfield), Uma Thurman (Mia Wallace), Harvey Keitel (Winston Wolf), Tim Roth (Pumpkin (Ringo)), Amanda Plummer (Honey Bunny (Yolanda)), Maria de Medeiros (Fabienne), Ving Rhames (Marsellus Wallace), Eric Stolz (Lance), Rosanna Arquette (Jody), Christopher Walken (Capt. Koons), Bruce Willis (Butch Coolidge), Paul Calderon (Paul), Bronagh Gallagher (Trudy), Peter Greene (Zed), Stephen Hibbert (The Gimp), Angela Jones (Esmeralda Villalobos), Phil LaMarr (Marvin), Robert Ruth (Sporstscaster #1/Coffee Shop Manager), Julia Sweeney (Raquel), Quentin Tarantino (Jimmie), Frank Whaley (Brett), Duane Whitaker (Maynard), Laura Lovelace (Waitress), Steve Buscemi (Surly Buddy Holly Waiter), Alexis Arquette (Fourth Man), Lawrence Bender (Long Hair Yuppie Scum), Dick Miller (Monster Joe, scenes deleted).

YOU WON'T KNOW THE FACTS UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN THE FICTION.

FACTS

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

RELEASE DATE: October 14th, 1994 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $9.3 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $107.9 million (USA) WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $212.9 million BUDGET: $8 million (USA) - John Travolta first met director Tarantino to discuss his part in the film at Tarantino's L.A. apartment. It was the same apartment in which Travolta once lived as a struggling Hollywood newcomer. - Producer Danny DeVito starred in Twins, whose main characters were Vincent and Julius -- almost the same as Vincent and Jules in this movie. - Mia calls Vincent "cowboy" -- John Travolta starred in Urban Cowboy (1980). Vincent calls Mia "cowgirl" in return; Uma Thurman starred in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993). - The Big Kahuna burger was also eaten in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn. It first appeared in Reservoir Dogs, all of which featured Tarantino's involvement. - Everytime Vincent goes to the bathroom, something "bad" happens.   - The innocent bystander shot by Marsellus Wallace is the same actor pulled out of her car by Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs. - The word "fuck" is used 271 times. - Academy Award winner for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Also, nominated for six more Oscars for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino. WRITERS: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. PRODUCER: Lawrence Bender. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher. CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Richard N. Gladstein, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein. DISTRIBUTOR: Miramax Films

QUOTES

Mia: I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take me out and do whatever I wanted. I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.

Jules: Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since I'm in a transitional peroid, I don't want to kill either one of your asses.

Jimmie: Well, the thing on my mind right now isn't the good coffee in my cup, it's the dead nigger in my garage.

Jules: Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is irrelevant. What is relevant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved.

Honey Bunny: Any of you fuckin' pricks move, and I'll execute every mother fuckin' last one of ya.

Vincent Vega: And you know what they call...a...a...a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese? Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is. Jules: Then what do they call it? Vincent: They call it a "Royale" with cheese. Jules: A "Royale" with cheese! What do they call a Big Mac? Jules: "Le Big-Mac"! Ha ha ha ha! What do they call a Whopper? Vincent: I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"Jackson and Travolta are magnetic...Willis is compelling...infact, there are not slackers in this cast. This voluble, violent, pumped-up movie isn't for every taste--certainly not for the squemish--but it's got more vitality than almost any other film of 1994."  -- Leonard Maltin

Jules: What does Marcellus Wallace look like? Brett: What? Jules: [pointing his gun] Say "what" again. Say "what" again! I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker! Say "what" one more goddamn time! Brett: He's b-b-black... Jules: Go on. Brett: He's bald... Jules: Does he look like a bitch? Brett: What? [Jules shoots Brett in the shoulder] Jules: Does he look like a bitch? Brett: No! Jules: Then why you trying to fuck him like a bitch, Brett? Brett: I didn't! Jules: Yes you did. Yes you did, Brett. You tried to fuck him. And Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody, except Mrs. Wallace. Jules: I'm a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker, motherfucker.

"Pulp Fiction is everything its said to be: brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet." -- Desson Howe, Washington Post

"Pulp Fiction shows what can happen when a talented and accomplished filmmaker reaches his apex...A near-masterpiece." -- James Bernardinelli

Jules: Yolanda, I thought you were gonna be cool. When you yell at me, it makes me nervous. When I get nervous, I get scared. And when motherfuckers get scared, that's when motherfuckers get accidentally shot.

[Jules shoots the guy on the couch during Brett's interrogation] Jules: Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?

Marcellus: No one needs to know about this except you, me and Mr. -soon-to-be-living-the-rest-of-his-short-ass-life-in-agonizing-pain-rapist here.