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Reservoir Dogs

Every dog has his day.

8.1(15,928)19921h 39m32

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.2M
Box office
$2.9M
Language
English
  • escape
  • jewelry
  • psychopath
  • traitor
  • ear
  • heist
  • thief
  • betrayal
  • plan gone wrong
  • gang
  • nonlinear timeline
  • warehouse

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Behind the camera

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • TheatricalUA2 Sept 1992
  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereRSundance Film Festival21 Jan 1992
    • PremiereLos Angeles, California8 Sept 1992
    • PremiereNew York City, New York12 Oct 1992
    • Theatrical (limited)R23 Oct 1992
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical188 Jan 1993
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalMA 15+30 Jul 1993
  • CanadaCA

    • Premiere18AToronto International Film Festival16 Sept 1992
    • Theatrical18A16 Oct 1992
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical181 Sept 1994
  • BrazilBR

    • Premiere16São Paulo International Film Festival29 Oct 1992
    • Theatrical164 Jun 1993
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Physical18+1 Dec 1994
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1517 May 1993
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-182 Jul 1993
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival13 May 1992
    • PremiereAvignon Film Festival25 Jun 1992
    • Theatrical162 Sept 1992
    • TVArte13 Jun 2022
    • Digital / OTTArte•tv30 Jun 2025
    • TVArte30 Jun 2025
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1810 Sept 1992

Frequently asked questions

Reservoir Dogs was released on 2 September 1992.

Audience reviews

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  • T

    talisencrw

    5/14/2016

    10/10

    This unique take on the heist-film-gone-wrong was excellent--stylish and intelligently made, yet very funny and inexpensive. Tarantino's accolades from giving American cinema the resuscitation it needed mirrors what has happened, at least since the 70's, with Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', both in terms of entertaining violence and usage of music in the scoring of films. I greatly thank Harvey Keitel for taking a …

  • W

    Wuchak

    6/4/2018

    4/10

    The cuss-oriented squabbles of lowlife crooks for 99 minutes (and no women) RELEASED IN 1992 and written/directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs” is a crime drama/thriller about a diamond heist gone disastrously wrong in Los Angeles wherein the surviving thugs bicker back-and-forth in a warehouse about which of their members is a police informant. The main thieves are played by Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Ste…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/4/2024

    6/10

    Nope, I didn't get the memo... After a jewellery heist goes wrong and the escaping funeral-attired hoodlums kill a couple of cops and one gets gut-shot in a car-jacking, they return to their hideout where they turn on each other with expletive-ridden venom. What now ensues is a recreation of the planning and execution of their raid, their introductions to each other and that all lays the seeds for this over-rated dra…

  • R

    rsanek

    4/23/2024

    4/10

    I don't get it. Feels like nothing happens the whole film. Cool to see Buscemi in this though, I didn't realize he was in such an early one of Tarantino's films.

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