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 magazine named it the "Greatest Independent Film" ever made. At the film's release at the Sundance Film Festival, film critic Jami Bernard of the "New York Daily News" compared the effect of "Reservoir Dogs" to that of the 1895 film "L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat", whereby audiences supposedly saw a moving train approaching the camera and ducked. Bernard said that "Reservoir Dogs" had a similar effect and people were not ready for it. Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" enjoyed the cast and the usage of non-linear storytelling. He similarly complimented Tarantino's directing and liked the