Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; it is based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Tarantino wrote "Pulp Fiction" in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for "True Romance" (1993). Its plot occurs out of chronological order.
Pulp Fiction Tarantino screenplays, "Natural Born Killers" and "True Romance". In September 1996, Dole did accuse "Pulp Fiction" – which he had not seen – of promoting "the romance of heroin". Paula Rabinowitz expresses the general film industry opinion that "Pulp Fiction" "simultaneously resurrected John Travolta and film noir". In Peter Biskind's description, it created a "guys-with-guns frenzy". The film has also been labeled as a black comedy and a "neo-noir". Critic Geoffrey O'Brien, however, argued against the classification of "Pulp Fiction" into the neo-noir genre: "The old-time noir passions, the brooding melancholy and operatic death scenes, would be altogether out of