Pulp Fiction (1994)

Release date: 1994-10-14
Country: USA
Language: English|Spanish|French
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Production Co: Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films
Genre: Drama, Crime
Rating: 8.9/10
Length: 2h 34min

Storyline

Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

Plot Keywords

nonlinear timeline, neo noir, cunnilingus, black comedy, oral sex, dance contest, sex slave, overdose, drug overdose, drug dealing, boxer, anal rape, drug use, male rape, ensemble cast, bondage, violence, multiple perspectives, cult film, n word

Short Review

Reservoir Dogs still looks like the great American film of the decade, but Quentin Tarantino's second film as writer-director shows him already deep in the territory of self-parody.