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Dominican Rep. My Best Friend's Birthday
- Original title
- My Best Friend's Birthday
- Year
- 1987
- Running time
- 35 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Craig Hamann
Quentin Tarantino- Crysta Shaw
Allen Garfield- Al Harrell
- Linda Kaye
- Stevo Polyi
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
Producer: Quentin Tarantino- Genre
- Comedy | Half-length Film. Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- It's Mickey's Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that's when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he'll never forget.
My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) is an unfinished black and white independent film by Craig Hamann and Quentin Tarantino, while they were working at the now shuttered Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California. The project started in 1984, when Hamann wrote a short 30-40 page script about a young man who continually tries to do something nice for his friend's birthday, only to have his efforts backfire. Tarantino became attached to the project as co-writer and director, and he and Hamann expanded the short script into an 80 page script. On an estimated budget of $5,000, they shot the film on 16mm over the course of the next four years. Hamann and Tarantino starred in the film, along with several video store and acting class buddies, and worked on the crew, which included fellow Video Archives employees Rand Vossler and Roger Avary. The film is the most overtly comic that Tarantino has made. Tarantino himself referred to it as like a "Jerry Lewis movie".
The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36 minutes of the film survived. The 36 minute cut has been shown at several film festivals. It has never been officially released (from youtube.com)- Movie Soulmates' ratings
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