Stars: James Caan, Johnathon Schaech, Elizabeth Lackey, Andrew Binns

Director: William A. Graham

Summary: A detective on holiday with his wife in the country finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy. When his wife is attacked and a young man is killed, he must work with the man's father, the local sheriff, to uncover the truth.

A young city homicide detective (Jonathan Schaech, THAT THING YOU DO) flees to the country with his wife to start a new life. In their new town, his wife is brutally assaulted by a man she believes to be the son of the town sheriff (James Caan). When it's discovered that the sheriff's son was murdered on the same night of the assault, the young detective suspects that he and his wife are being implicated in a conspiracy and sets out to solve the mystery with the help of the sheriff.

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Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogshas an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.

As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fictionis about redemption, and Jackie Brownis about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogsis violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogsdeserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

Aspect Ratio:	1.78 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	2002
Release Date:	June 16, 2003
Runtime:	84 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 35014
Keywords:	Blood, General, Crime, Wide, Screen, Thriller
Genre:	Thriller