An inside look at a memorable community of criminals. Prizefighter Butch Coolidge has decided to stop payment on a deal he's made with the devil. Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue. Meanwhile, two career criminals, Vincent Vega and Jules, go about their daily business of shooting up other crooks who are late on payments to their boss. While one is asked to babysit their boss' dangerously pretty young wife, the other suddenly realizes that he must give up his life of crime.
cast
Christopher Walken as Capt. Koons Eric Stoltz as Lance Harvey Keitel as Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe John Travolta as Vincent Vega Quentin Tarantino as Jimmie Dimmick Rosanna Arquette as Jody Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield Steve Buscemi as Buddy Holly Tim Roth as Pumpkin (Ringo) Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
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Vincent: Jules, if you give that fuckin' nimrod fifteen hundred dollars, I'm gonna shoot him on general principles.
According to all evidence, PULP FICTION is going to be one of those movies that turns people into incarnations of Beavis and Butthead; either it "sucks" or it "kicks ass," apparently with no tenable middle ground. This of course is the natural course of things for films as unique as PULP FICTION. The same thing happened with NATURAL BORN KILLERS already this year, as proponents and detractors exchanged ad hominem volleys. Quentin Tarantino's stunning sophomore effort deserves better. It is the kind of film, imperfect though it may be, which should inspire discussion about how exciting the medium can be. There are more moments in this one film which awed me to silence than in every other 1994 release combined, and while its faults may not allow it to stand as the year's best film, it's certainly close.