Four Rooms

Four Rooms (1995)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1995-12-09

Country

United States

Production

Miramax, A Band Apart

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$4 000 000

Revenue

$4 257 354

Website

https://www.miramax.com/movie/four-rooms/

Director

Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino

Actors

Tim Roth, Jennifer Beals, David Proval, Ione Skye, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Calderon, Bruce Willis, Lana McKissack
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell

Producer

Lawrence Bender, Alexandre Rockwell, Quentin Tarantino

Operator

Guillermo Navarro

Composer

Combustible Edison

Artist

Audition

Russell Gray

Editing

Robert Rodriguez, Sally Menke, Elena Maganini
All team (104)

• The video game that Betty’s friends are playing is called “Rambo 3.” This game was released for the Sega Genesis series of consoles in 1989.
• Before the children switched to an adult channel, they were watching the short film "Bedhead", directed by Robert Rodriguez.
• The film was originally going to be called "Five Rooms", but one of the episodes was decided to be cut before filming began.
• The role of Ted was originally written for Steve Buscemi.
• One of the main tenets of the American Directors Guild is the following thesis: "One film - one director." Therefore, all four directors had to leave the Guild to bring the film to fruition.
• Quentin heated up the atmosphere on set so much that his episode was filmed in just two days.
• Madonna was so unhappy with how she looked in the film that she flatly refused to participate in the film's promotional activities, despite it being stipulated in her contract. That's why Madonna has red hair on the posters and album cover – she liked herself with it (unlike the platinum blonde in the film).
• After working with Quentin on "Pulp Fiction," Bruce Willis begged to appear in the Tarantino segment of "Four Rooms," titled "The Man from Hollywood," without a fee. That's why Willis isn't even in the credits: according to the rules of the Screen Actors Guild, actors are not allowed to work for free.
• In 1995, the film was released in Russia under the title "Strange Brew."
• The story unfolding in the fourth room is based on the plot of Roald Dahl's short story "The Man from the South," in which the main character, a gambler, is even more of a madman than his counterpart in the film.
• In that same fourth episode, directed by Quentin Tarantino, the word "fuck" and its derivatives are uttered exactly 193 times in 21 minutes of action.
• Rodriguez cast his sister, Patricia Vonne, as the corpse in the episode "Disturbing the Peace".
• The episode "Hollywood Man" features a giveaway of a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu. This was the same car owned by Quentin Tarantino (the director of this episode) and was stolen during the filming of "Pulp Fiction".
• The opening credits show Tim Roth's character from "Reservoir Dogs" unzipping, and Roth's character from "Four Rooms" emerging from within.
• Before the children switched to an erotic channel, they were watching Robert Rodriguez's short film "Bedhead".
• After collaborating with Quentin on "Pulp Fiction," Bruce Willis insisted on appearing in Tarantino’s segment of "Four Rooms," titled "The Man from Hollywood," without a fee. That is why Willis isn't even in the credits: according to the rules of the Screen Actors Guild, actors are not allowed to work for free.
• The story unfolding in the fourth room is based on the plot of Roald Dahl’s short story "The Man from the South," in which the main character, a gambler, is even more insane than his counterpart in the film.
• In that same fourth episode, directed by Quentin Tarantino, the word "fuck" and its derivatives are uttered exactly 193 times in 21 minutes of action.
• Rodriguez cast his sister, Patricia Vonne, as the corpse in the episode "Disturbance of the Peace".
• A 1964 Chevrolet Malibu is raffled off in the episode "The Man from Hollywood." This was the same model car owned by Quentin Tarantino (the director of this episode) and was stolen during the filming of "Pulp Fiction."
• The opening credits show Tim Roth’s character from "Reservoir Dogs" unzipping, and his character from "Four Rooms" emerging.