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Pulp Fiction

Year:
Duration:
154 min | USA:168 min (special edition)
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
8.9
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 63 wins & 47 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1994-10-14
Filming Locations: 1435 Flower Street, Glendale, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $8,000,000
Opening Weekend: $9,311,882 (USA) (14 October 1994)
Gross: $107,928,762 (USA) (5 August 2012)
Cast
Actor
Character
Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Pulp Fiction
Tim Roth
Pumpkin
Amanda Plummer
Honey Bunny
Laura Lovelace
Waitress
John Travolta
Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson
Jules Winnfield
Phil LaMarr
Marvin
Frank Whaley
Brett
Burr Steers
Roger
Bruce Willis
Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames
Marsellus Wallace
Paul Calderon
Paul / English Bob
Bronagh Gallagher
Trudi
Rosanna Arquette
Jody
Eric Stoltz
Lance
Jerome Patrick Hoban
Ed Sullivan
Michael Gilden
Phillip Morris Page
Gary Shorelle
Ricky Nelson
Susan Griffiths
Marilyn Monroe
Eric Clark
James Dean
Joseph Pilato
Dean Martin
Brad Blumenthal
Jerry Lewis
Steve Buscemi
Buddy Holly
Lorelei Leslie
Mamie van Doren
Emil Sitka
Hold Hands You Lovebirds
Brenda Hillhouse
Butch's Mother
Christopher Walken
Captain Koons
Chandler Lindauer
Young Butch
Sy Sher
Klondike
Robert Ruth
Sportscaster #1 / Coffee Shop
Rich Turner
Sportscaster #2
Angela Jones
Esmarelda Villalobos
Don Blakely
Wilson's Trainer
Carl Allen
Dead Floyd Wilson
Maria de Medeiros
Fabienne
Karen Maruyama
Gawker #1
Kathy Griffin
Hit-and-run Witness
Venessia Valentino
Pedestrian / Bonnie Dimmick
Linda Kaye
Shot Woman
Duane Whitaker
Maynard
Peter Greene
Zed
Stephen Hibbert
The Gimp
Alexis Arquette
Fourth Man
Quentin Tarantino
Jimmie Dimmick
Harvey Keitel
The Wolf
Julia Sweeney
Raquel
Lawrence Bender
Long Hair Yuppy-Scum
Cie Allman
Winston Wolfe's Girlfriend At Party (uncredited)
Rene Beard
Bar Tender (uncredited)
Lori Pizzo
Lucky Lady (uncredited)
Glendon Rich
Drug Dealer (uncredited)
Devan Richardson
Hopalong Cassidy
Ani Sava
Woman in Bathroom (uncredited)
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Trivia
Quentin Tarantino:  [trunk shot]  The scene where Jules and Vincent open the trunk to get the guns out of the trunk is filmed from the perspective of someone inside the trunk.
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In the screenplay, Butch is a featherweight boxer but in the film, Butch's opponent Wilson has his weight announced as "210 pounds" - implying that Butch is a heavyweight.
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Jules' "Bad Mother Fucker" wallet actually belongs to Quentin Tarantino. The inscription on the wallet is a reference to the theme song of Shaft (1971). Samuel L. Jackson, who plays Jules, would later go on to play Shaft in the 2000 remake, Shaft (2000).
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Goofs
Vincent unzips a case to reveal an old-fashioned glass syringe, yet the extreme close-ups of the syringe show it is a modern day syringe made of plastic.
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[2:15:58] When Jules opens the briefcase for Pumpkin (Ringo), an orange light bulb can be seen through the mirror on the top part of the inside.
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[1:20:30 - 1:20:45] When Fabienne starts talking about breakfast, she sits on the bed with her right hand on her foot. When we see her from behind, her hand is suddenly resting against her head.
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Quotes
Pumpkin: Mexican's out the fucking kitchen!
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Jody: [seeing Mia on the floor] Who's she?
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Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this?
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Faq
Q
Why does Butch save Marsellus?
A
Honour. Butch puts himself in Marsellus' position and decides that he would hate to be left to such a horrid fate - he cannot just leave somebody there, no matter who it is. Butch does the "right thing" to put it simply - he realises that Maynard and Zed cannot get away with what they are doing to anybody. Butch may have also considered saving Marsellus an act of redemption. By saving his skin, he may have hoped that Marsellus would forgive him and let him go. This becomes the case, whether that was Butch's intention or not. Also, if Marsellus ever escaped and learned that Butch had left him there to his fate, Marsellus would sure unleash even more retaliation against Butch than he was subject to after double-crossing him at the fight. Consider the weapon Butch chooses: a samurai sword. The samurai are long-associated with honour towards their masters. If you want to simplify the overarching theme of the film, you could say it's about honor among thieves. There is also a clue to why Butch saves Marsellus, in the flashback scene with Christopher Walken's Captain Koons, and the young Butch. In the scene, Koons is relating his imprisonment with Butch's father, and tells Butch "Hopefully, you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other". It's possible that these words came to Butch's mind as he was attempting to leave the pawn shop.
Q
What's the deal with the guy in black?
A
That's "The Gimp," an extreme sexual submissive who is apparently kept prisoner in Maynard and Zed's basement. The character was Roger Avary's idea, who got it from the movie "Deliverance." Unfortunately, nothing is specified about the character's origin or the circumstances of his time in the basement, except that he has no apparent desire to be freed. Another character named "Russell" once inhabited the same room. The screenplay implies that Russell was a previous prisoner whom Maynard and Zed eventually killed. The text commentary on the Pulp Fiction Special Edition DVD is similarly vague. It only refers to the Gimp a few times, and calls Butch the "victim of violence" and the Gimp the "perpetrator of violence."
Q
Which book is Vincent reading?
A
The book is the first Modesty Blaise novel, which tracks the adventures of female spy Modesty Blaise. Though not of general reference to anything in the movie, it could be noted that Modesty is of some comparable significance to Mia's earlier mentions of "Fox Force Five," a show about a group of female spies. The edition Vincent reads has a mock-up cover that Tarantino had his prop department make, based upon the cover of an early edition of the novel.
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Uma Thurman
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