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DVDfever.co.uk – My Best Friend’s Birthday – Quentin Tarantino’s first-ever film
Posted: January 12th, 2011.
In this movie, it’s Mickey’s Birthday and, as luck would have it, his girlfriend just left him, so his best friendClarence promises to show him a birthday that he’ll never forget. Despite this film being completed, the finalreel was reportedly destroyed in a laboratory fire that broke out during the editing process. The survivingpart of the film, running for around 36 minutes, was shown in part to a small crowd in early 1987.
Actor Allen Garfield (The Conversation (1974), and who also starred alongside Tarantino in Destiny TurnsOn The Radio in 1995) was teaching Quentin how to act at the time, and that is how he also became involvedin the project. It was filmed over a period of three years, from 1984-1987. It later became the basis forthe Tarantino-scripted Tony Scott movie, True Romance. (1993)
Some interesting trivia about this film:
There is a scene in the film that seems to have inspired the movie poster for Pulp Fiction as an actress poses in the same pose Mia Wallace is in. K-Billy Radio makes it first appearance here as Clarence Pool is a disc jockey for them. K-Billy also is referenced in Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino’s friend Stevo Polyi later appeared in Reservoir Dogs in Mr. Orange’s flashback as a Sheriff in the bathroom story. Brenda Hillhouse appeared in both Pulp Fiction and Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn. The call girl character Misty Knight is a reference to a Marvel comic book character with the same name.
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