Reservoir Dogs
Crime, Thriller
Artisan  (1991) 100 mins R

8.4 (166,684 votes) Top 250: #68
Four perfect killers. One perfect crime. Now all they have to fear is each other.

They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one? Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's a briliant new American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino!...

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Cast and Crew
Quentin Tarantino  ......  Mr. Brown
Harvey Keitel  ......  Mr. White - Larry Dimmick
Steve Buscemi  ......  Mr. Pink
Michael Madsen  ......  Mr. Blonde - Vic Vega
Tim Roth  ......  Mr. Orange - Freddy Newandyke
Chris Penn  ......  Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
Director  .....  Quentin Tarantino
Producer  .....  Ronna Wallace; Monte Hellman; Lawrence Bender; Richard N. Gladstein
Writer  .....  Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: After Nice Guy Eddie, Mr. White, and Mr. Pink pick up Mr. Orange from his apartment, Nice Guy Eddie comments on Mr. Pink's point in the conversation with "I'll have to go with Pink on this one". The team wasn't given their aliases until the meeting after the car ride. (more)

Trivia:
Aside from the opening credits, the film never refers to any of the characters as a "Reservoir Dog". (more)

Filming Locations:
Johnie's Coffee Shop - 6101 Wilshire Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Mr. Brown: Let me tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It's a metaphor for big dicks.
Mr. Blonde: No, no. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable. She's been fucked over a few times. Then she meets some guy who's really sensitive...
Mr. Brown: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... Time out Greenbay. Tell that fucking bullshit to the tourists.
Joe: Toby... Who the fuck is Toby? Toby...
Mr. Brown: 'Like a Virgin' is not about this nice girl who meets a nice fella. That's what "True Blue" is about, now, granted, no argument about that.
Mr. Orange: Which one is 'True Blue'?
Nice Guy Eddie: 'True Blue' was a big ass hit for Madonna. I don't even follow this Tops In Pops shit, and I've at least heard of "True Blue".
Mr. Orange: Look, asshole, I didn't say I ain't heard of it. All I asked was how does it go? Excuse me for not being the world's biggest Madonna fan.
Mr. Orange: Personally, I can do without her.
Mr. Blue: I like her early stuff. You know, 'Lucky Star', 'Borderline' - but once she got into her 'Papa Don't Preach' phase, I don't know, I tuned out.
Mr. Brown: Hey, you guys are making me lose my... train of thought here. I was saying something, what was it?
Joe: Oh, Toby was this Chinese girl, what was her last name?
Mr. White: What's that?
Joe: I found this old address book in a jacket I ain't worn in a coon's age. What was that name?
Mr. Brown: What the fuck was I talking about?
Mr. Pink: You said 'True Blue' was about a nice girl, a sensitive girl who meets a nice guy, and that 'Like a Virgin' was a metaphor for big dicks.
Mr. Brown: Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Mr. Blue: How many dicks is that?
Mr. White: A lot.
Mr. Brown: Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the 'Great Escape', he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain.
Joe: Chew? Toby Chew?
Mr. Brown: It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, 'Like a Virgin'.
Joe: Wong?
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Awards:
8 wins & 5 nominations (more)