Pulp Fiction (1994), written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, interweaves several crime stories in nonlinear order — two hitmen, a boxer who won't take a dive, a mob boss's wife who overdoses, and a pair of diner robbers — all connected in a Los Angeles criminal underworld.

Why It Matters

• Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and revitalized independent American cinema
• John Travolta's career resurrection and Samuel L. Jackson's Jules remain two of the decade's most iconic performances
• Tarantino's dialogue — pop culture references, philosophical tangents, sudden violence — created a new mode of American screenwriting

Made for $8 million, Pulp Fiction earned over $200 million and launched Miramax into a major studio. It was the film that proved American independent cinema could be commercially dominant and artistically radical simultaneously.

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Wikipedia: Pulp Fiction

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