ThrillerCrime

Pulp Fiction

- You won't know the facts until you've seen the 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.

Release Date : 1994-09-10

Language :EnglishSpanishFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : MiramaxA Band ApartJersey Films

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Pulp Fiction - Chronological CutBlack MaskTiempos violentos

Cast

Character Name : Vincent Vega

Original Name : John Travolta

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jules Winnfield

Original Name : Samuel L. Jackson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mia Wallace

Original Name : Uma Thurman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Butch Coolidge

Original Name : Bruce Willis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marsellus Wallace

Original Name : Ving Rhames

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Wolf

Original Name : Harvey Keitel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lance

Original Name : Eric Stoltz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pumpkin

Original Name : Tim Roth

Gender : Male

Character Name : Honey Bunny

Original Name : Amanda Plummer

Gender : Female

Character Name : Fabienne

Original Name : Maria de Medeiros

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jimmie Dimmick

Original Name : Quentin Tarantino

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain Koons

Original Name : Christopher Walken

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jody

Original Name : Rosanna Arquette

Gender : Female

Character Name : Zed

Original Name : Peter Greene

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maynard

Original Name : Duane Whitaker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Esmarelda Villalobos

Original Name : Angela Jones

Gender : Female

Character Name : Marvin

Original Name : Phil LaMarr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Buddy Holly

Original Name : Steve Buscemi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trudi

Original Name : Bronagh Gallagher

Gender : Female

Character Name : Waitress

Original Name : Laura Lovelace

Gender : Female

Character Name : Brett

Original Name : Frank Whaley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Roger

Original Name : Burr Steers

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul

Original Name : Paul Calderon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ed Sullivan

Original Name : Jerome Patrick Hoban

Gender : Male

Character Name : Page for Phillip Morris

Original Name : Michael Gilden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ricky Nelson

Original Name : Gary Shorelle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marilyn Monroe

Original Name : Susan Griffiths

Gender : Female

Character Name : James Dean

Original Name : Eric Clark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dean Martin

Original Name : Joseph Pilato

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jerry Lewis

Original Name : Brad Blumenthal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mamie van Doren

Original Name : Lorelei Leslie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Hold Hands You Lovebirds (archive footage)

Original Name : Emil Sitka

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Coolidge - Butch's Mother

Original Name : Brenda Hillhouse

Gender : Female

Character Name : Young Butch

Original Name : Chandler Lindauer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Klondike

Original Name : Sy Sher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sportscaster #1 - Coffee Shop

Original Name : Robert Ruth

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sportscaster #2

Original Name : Rich Turner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wilson's Trainer

Original Name : Don Blakely

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dead Floyd Wilson

Original Name : Carl Allen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gawker #1

Original Name : Karen Maruyama

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kathy Griffin

Original Name : Kathy Griffin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pedestrian / Bonnie Dimmick

Original Name : Venessia Valentino

Gender : Female

Character Name : Shot Woman

Original Name : Linda Kaye

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Gimp

Original Name : Stephen Hibbert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fourth Man

Original Name : Alexis Arquette

Gender : Female

Character Name : Raquel

Original Name : Julia Sweeney

Gender : Female

Character Name : Long Hair Yuppy Scum

Original Name : Lawrence Bender

Gender : Male

Character Name : Winston Wolfe's Girlfriend at Party (uncredited)

Original Name : Cie Allman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bar Tender (uncredited)

Original Name : Rene Beard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Drug Dealer (uncredited)

Original Name : Glendon Rich

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman in Bathroom (uncredited)

Original Name : Ani Sava

Gender : Female

Character Name : Diner Patron #2 (uncredited)

Original Name : Richard Rossi

Gender : Male

Reviews

Wuchak

@Wuchak

2021-06-23

***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

@erick_cabral

2021-06-23

Insane movie! One of the bests(if not the best) Tarantino's movies!

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-09-19

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

@crastana

2022-07-26

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

@alksjalksj

2022-12-19

really fun to watch and the attention to detail is great

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

2023-01-21

**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.