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Reservoir Dogs - 10th Anniversary Special Edition (1992)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Harvey Keitel Mr. White/Larry Dimmick
Tim Roth Mr. Orange/Freddy Newandyke
Michael Madsen Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega
Kirk Baltz Marvin Nash
Eddie Bunker
Steve Buscemi Mr. Pink
Chris Penn Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
Quentin Tarantino Mr. Brown
Lawrence Tierney Joe Cabot
Randy Brooks Holdaway
Edward Bunker Mr. Blue (as Eddie Bunker)
Lawrence Bender
Suzanne Celeste
Tony Cosmo
Linda Kaye
Movie Details
Genre Action; Adventure
Director Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary
Producer Lawrence Bender; Morrie Eisenman; Richard N. Gladstein
Writer Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary
Studio Artisan
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Running Time 99 mins
Country USA
Color Color
IMDb Rating 8.4
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
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 12
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
IMDB
DVD Empire
Product Details
Edition Special Edition
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed)
Fullscreen (4:3, Pan & Scan)
Widescreen (16:9)
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
UPC (Barcode) 012236131472
Chapters 22
Release Date 2/17/2004
Subtitles Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
DTS [English]
Nr of Disks/Tapes 2
Extra Features
Color Closed-captioned