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Released: 1994

Star(s): John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson Other Star(s): Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, Ving Rhames, Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth, Rosanna Arquette, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Angela Jones, Peter Greene, Frank Whaley, Alexis Arquette, Maria De Medeiros, Duane Whitaker, Julia Sweeney

Award(s) Won: Academy Awards - Best Screenplay Original: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary Golden Globes - Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino MTV Movie Awards - Best Dance Sequence: Uma Thurman, John Travolta MTV Movie Awards - Best Movie British Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino revisits the seedier side of Los Angeles--following 1992?s RESERVOIR DOGS--with this funny, violent, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the less "classic" side of filmmaking--the potboilers and capers, the Blaxploitation flicks and gangster movies. The film interweaves three tales, told in a circular, fractured manner, which only fully connect by the time the final credits roll. The first story focuses on Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), two hit men on duty for "the big boss," Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), whose gorgeous wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), takes a liking to Vincent. In the second, a down-and-out pugilist (Bruce Willis), who is ordered to take a fall, decides that there?s more money in doing the opposite. The final chapter follows a pair of lovers (Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth) as they prepare to hold up a diner.

Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing lovers, and a boxer out to scam the mob on his last professional bout. This is the film that put John Travolta back on the map as a major box-office draw in the '90s and officially established Samuel L. Jackson as a superstar. It also inspired a seemingly endless slew of imitators.

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