Reservoir Dogs [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Overview

In 1992, Reservoir Dogs transformed Quentin Tarantino practically overnight from an obscure, unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to the most influential new filmmaker of the 1990s. The story looks at what happens before and after (but not during) a botched jewelry store robbery organized by Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney). Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) is a career criminal who takes a liking to newcomer Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) and enjoys showing him the ropes. Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) is a weaselly loner obsessed with professionalism. Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) has just gotten out of jail after taking the rap on a job for Cabot; he's grateful for the work but isn't the same person he used to be. While Mr. Blonde goes nuts during the heist, the thieves are surprised by the sudden arrival of the police, and Mr. Pink is convinced one of their team is a cop. So who's the rat? What do they do about Mr. Blonde? And what do they do with Mr. Orange, who took a bullet in the gut and is slowly bleeding to death? Reservoir Dogs jumps back and forth between pre- and post-robbery events, occasionally putting the narrative on pause to let the characters discuss such topics as the relative importance of tipping, who starred in Get Christie Love!, and what to do when you enter a men's room full of cops carrying a briefcase full of marijuana.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/15/2022
UPC:	0031398253785
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	R
Source:	Lions Gate
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	8,351

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Harvey Keitel	Mr. White
Chris Penn	Nice Guy Eddie
Tim Roth	Mr. Orange
Michael Madsen	Mr. Blonde
Steve Buscemi	Mr. Pink
Lawrence Tierney	Joe Cabot
Randy Brooks	Holdaway
Kirk Baltz	Marvin Nash
Edward Bunker	Mr. Blue
Quentin Tarantino	Mr. Brown
Michael Sottile	Teddy
Rich Turner	Actor
Linda Kaye	Shocked Woman
David Steen	Actor
Tony Cosmo	Actor
Stevo Polyi	Actor
Robert Ruth	Actor
Lawrence Bender	Young Cop / Background Radio Play
Suzanne Celeste	Actor
Steven Wright	K-Billy DJ,Actor
Rowland Wafford	Diner Patron
Laurie Lathem	Voices
Scott McElroy	Cop
Jeff Sheaffer	Chase Cop
Maria Strova	Voices
Burr Steers	Voices
Craig Hamann	Voices

Technical Credits

Quentin Tarantino

Roger Avary

Quentin Tarantino	Director,Screenwriter
Harvey Keitel	Producer
Lawrence Bender	Producer,Director
Monte Hellman	Executive Producer,Producer
Ronna B. Wallace	Executive Producer,Producer
Roger Avary	Screenwriter
Dave Gregory	Special Effects
Ron Bartlett	Sound Effects
Matthew C. Beville	Sound Effects
Mark Coffey	Sound Effects
Stephen Hunter Flick	Sound Effects
Richard N. Gladstein	Executive Producer,Producer
Scott McElroy	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is an audacious, low-budget, neo-noir thriller that immediately established the former video-store clerk as the '90s filmmaker to watch. Armed with a terrific script that employs jarring, temporal shifts and mesmerizing, pop-culture-obsessed dialogue, the budding auteur assembled a letter-perfect cast of seasoned veterans and talented newcomers. Perennial screen heavy Lawrence Tierney plays the career criminal who recruits a team of supposedly top-notch triggermen -- Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, and Chris Penn -- to pull off a big diamond heist. The desperadoes bungle the job, however, instigating a massive shoot-out that sends them scrambling for the deserted warehouse they've chosen for a rendezvous. Tarantino makes his characters colorful, violent, desperate men who are generally garrulous and often comically profane. What's more, they don't flinch from the sight of blood, something in which Resevoir Dogs is awash. Violent and nihilistic, this stylish picture boosted Tarantino's stock and influenced a slew of Gen-X filmmakers to crank out similarly gritty but less effective imitations.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse

A study in violence and pop hoodlum cool, Quentin Tarantino's debut film adrenalized the gangster film and put Tarantino on the auteur map. Adapting the novelistic structure of Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and using observational long takes, Tarantino shifts between the preparations for an ill-fated heist and its extraordinarily bloody aftermath, increasing tension through the gradual revelation of each color-coded character's true nature as they figure out what went wrong. As in Howard Hawks's and Sam Peckinpah's films, the driving concern is honor among men, but, as in the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Tarantino's crooks also define themselves through a plethora of pop culture references, from Lee Marvin to the "Stuck in the Middle With You" ear-slicing and the opening exegesis of Madonna songs. Drawing praise and fire on the film festival circuit for juxtaposing humor and brutal violence, and attacked for being too indebted to the Hong Kong action film City on Fire (1987), Reservoir Dogs opened to critical acclaim, jump-starting former video clerk Tarantino's career. Although its extreme bloodshed hampered its box office, Reservoir Dogs's postmodern generic self-awareness went on to be almost as influential on 1990s gangster movies as Tarantino's next film, Pulp Fiction (1994).

All Movie Guide - Lucia Bozzola