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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino (story), Roger Avary (story)...
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson...
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While the litany of useless jive-talkin' crime caper imitators which followed looked tired even on first viewing, Tarantino's intricately woven saga of scumbags and unlikely heroes is still as fresh and staggeringly original as the day it roared onto the big screen. Why? Well, the pitch-perfect cast is one thing, but mainly it's because, for all his big-chinned fanboy nerdishness and misguided acting aspirations, Tarantino understands what makes movies `cool' and delivers on every count. Crackling storytelling, whipsmart dialogue and great characters. It just doesn't get any better than this.
Four intertwining tales of betrayal, loyalty, and crime shed some light on the whacky lives of hitmen, mob wives, and boxers. Five years on and Tarantino's epic still rewards repeat viewing. Fresh and deeply funny, it retains its power to both repel and fascinate. A pastiche of old Hollywood studio movies, with a post-modern veneer and irony-heavy existential rambling, this triple tale of troubled gangsters works. Why? Because beyond the wisecracks, ultra-violence, twisted, time-jumping plot and wickedly funny scenarios, you actually care about the characters.