| Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Harvey Keitel |
Mr. White/Larry
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| Tim Roth |
Mr. Orange/Freddy
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| Michael Madsen |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega
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| Chris Penn |
Nice Guy Eddie
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| Steve Buscemi |
Mr. Pink
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| Lawrence Tierney |
Joe Cabot
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| Quentin Tarantino |
Mr. Brown
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| Kirk Baltz |
Marvin Nash
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| Randy Brooks |
Holdaway
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| Burr Steers |
Background Radio Play [Voice]
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| Lawrence Bender |
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| Edward Bunker |
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| Suzanne Celeste |
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| Plot |
| Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e., a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Crime; Drama; Thriller |
| Director |
Quentin Tarantino |
| Producer |
Ronna Wallace; Monte Hellman |
| Writer |
Quentin Tarantino |
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| Studio |
Miramax |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R (Restricted) |
| Running Time |
100 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
10/23/1992 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
162 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Location |
Disc 15 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 2.35:1 |
| Layers |
Dual Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
012236044208 |
| Chapters |
28 |
| Release Date |
11/20/2001 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 English Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Dolby Widescreen |
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