My Best Friend's Birthday

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Movie
Original title My Best Friend's Birthday
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 36 (incomplete / incomplete) minutes
Rod
Director Quentin Tarantino
script Craig Hamann
Quentin Tarantino
production Craig Hamann
Quentin Tarantino
Rand Vossler
camera Roger Avary
Scott McGill
Roberto A. Quezada
Rand Vossler
cut Quentin Tarantino
occupation

My Best Friend's Birthday is Quentin Tarantino's second feature film project after Love Birds in Bondage from 1983. It was made between 1985 and 1987. The film is unfinished. The last two files were destroyed in a laboratory fire, and Tarantino and his friends gave up hope of ever finishing the film. Today only about 36 minutes of this film exist. The existing material shows Quentin Tarantino's handwriting at an early stage, for example in the design of the dialogues or by inserting quotes from other films.

Background information

Tarantino wanted to prove his acting skills more than his directing skills on this project. The film was 16 mm - black and white film shot, had a budget of just under $ 5,000 US and was passing, while Tarantino at Allen Garfield took acting lessons and otherwise worked full-time in the video store "Video Archives".

In addition to Garfield and Tarantino, Craig Hamann , Crystal Shaw and a few friends from the time also play. Hamann, whom Tarantino met in 1981 while taking acting classes, wrote this partly autobiographical story in 1984. Tarantino later worked it out into a longer script with around 30 scenes. Just under a year later, Tarantino began writing the screenplay for True Romance (1993), taking up and processing many of the ideas from this book again.

Overall, the film seems rather amateurish and bumpy and cannot be compared with the 1992 film Reservoir Dogs , which was presented to the audience as an “official debut” at the Sundance Film Festival .

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