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Pulp Fiction

Name: Pulp Fiction
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Crime
Released: 1994-09-10
Duration: 154 min
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames

Hollywood19942h 34mEnglishTop 91% of Hollywood budgets

62Standing

342nd of 1,098 in Hollywood

Reported gross: 60
Return on budget: 97
Audience rating: 99
Momentum: 2

Out-grossed 60% of Hollywood releases with reported figures ($214M).
Returned 20× its budget, against an industry median of 3.1×.
Momentum in the 2nd percentile.
Audience rating 8.5 from 30,989 votes, the 99th percentile.

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Cost: $8M
Took: $214M

Against a Hollywood median of 3.1×, so this one returned 8.6 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Released: 10 September 1994
Runtime: 2h 34m
Language: English
Industry: Hollywood

Top billedAll 19 credits

John TravoltaVincent Vega
Samuel L. JacksonJules Winnfield
Uma ThurmanMia Wallace
Bruce WillisButch Coolidge
Ving RhamesMarsellus Wallace
Harvey KeitelThe Wolf

Made by

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Director of Photography: Andrzej Sekula
Producer: Lawrence Bender

Filed under

ComedyThrillerCrime

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