Stuck in the Middle with You a slide. Eventually, the other band members appear, driving off the strange characters so that Egan can sit down at last. Leif Garrett released a version of the song on his 1980 album, "Can't Explain". The song is used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut film "Reservoir Dogs", during the scene in which the character Mr. Blonde (played by Michael Madsen) taunts and tortures bound policeman Marvin Nash (Kirk Baltz) while singing and dancing to the song. In an interview with "Rolling Stone", Tarantino recalled: "That was one of those things where I thought [the song] would work really well, and
Reservoir Dogs enfants", but mispronounced the title "reservoir". "Reservoir Dogs" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1992. It became the festival's most talked-about film, and was subsequently picked up for distribution by Miramax Films. After being shown at several other film festivals, including in Cannes, Sitges and Toronto, "Reservoir Dogs" opened in the United States in 19 theaters with a first week total of $147,839. It was expanded to 61 theaters and totaled $2,832,029 at the domestic box office. The film grossed more than double that in the United Kingdom, where it was banned from home video release until 1995.