My Best Friend's Birthday

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
My Best Friend's Birthday
Clarence (Quentin Tarantino) meets Misty (Crystal Shaw)
Directed byQuentin Tarantino
Written by
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Craig Hamann
Produced by
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Craig Hamann
  • Rand Vossler
Starring
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Craig Hamann
  • Crystal Shaw
  • Allen Garfield
  • Al Harrell
  • Brenda Hillhouse
  • Linda Kaye
  • Stevo Polyi
  • Alan Sanborn
  • Rich Turner
  • Rowland Wafford
Cinematography
Edited byQuentin Tarantino
Distributed bySuper Happy Fun
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
70 minutes (original version)
36 minutes (remaining version)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5,000 (estimated)[1]

My Best Friend's Birthday is a 1987 amateur comedy film directed, edited, co-written, co-produced by and starring Quentin Tarantino.[2][3] The film was shot in black-and-white and was originally meant to have a runtime of seventy minutes, but only 36 minutes of the film are edited altogether, leaving the project unfinished.

Plot

It’s Mickey’s birthday, and his girlfriend just left him. His friend Clarence shows up to give him a birthday he'll never forget.

Cast

  • Quentin Tarantino as Clarence Poole, a radio DJ
  • Craig Hamann as
    Mickey Burnett
    , a radio DJ
  • Crystal Shaw as Misty Knight, a call girl, named after the Marvel Comics character of the same name.[4]: 104 
  • Allen Garfield as Bill Smith, an entertainment magnate
  • Al Harrell as Clifford, a
    pimp
  • Brenda Hillhouse as Mrs. Smith
  • Linda Kaye as Pandora
  • Stevo Polyias as Clancy, a radio DJ
  • Alan Sanborn as Nutmeg
  • Rich Turner as Brandon Turner
  • Rowland Wafford as Lenny Otis

Production

The film was made while Tarantino was working at the Video Archives, now closed, in Manhattan Beach, California.[3] The project started in 1984, when Hamann wrote a short 30- to 40-page script.

Tarantino became attached to the project as co-writer and director, and he and Hamann expanded the script to 80 pages. On an estimated budget of $5,000, the film was originally planned in a

Pulp Fiction), he referred to it as a "Martin and Lewis
kind of thing."

It was long alleged that the original cut was about 70 minutes long, but due to a film lab fire, only 36 minutes of the film still exist.

film festivals
.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b O'Connor, Roision (October 21, 2016). "Quentin Tarantino: Director's first film My Best Friend's Birthday on YouTube". The Independent. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  2. ^ Ferrari, Alex (October 14, 2015). "Quentin Tarantino's Unreleased Feature Film: My Best Friend's Birthday". Indie Film Hustle. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Wild, David (November 3, 1994). "Quentin Tarantino: The Madman of Movie Mayhem". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  4. ISBN 0713479906. Retrieved March 19, 2022 – via Wayback Machine
    .
  5. ^ Gaydos, Steve (March 14, 2007). "Q&A with Tarantino…when he was Mr. Green". Variety. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  6. ISBN 9781629334837. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022 – via Google Books
    .

External links
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Best_Friend%27s_Birthday&oldid=1151079449"