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My Best Friend's Birthday is a 1987 amateur comedy film directed, edited, co-written, co-produced and starring Quentin Tarantino.[2][3] The film was shot in black-and-white and was originally meant to have a runtime of 70 minutes, but only 36 minutes of the film are edited altogether, leaving the project unfinished.

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My Best Friend's Birthday
Clarence (Quentin Tarantino) meets Misty (Crystal Shaw)
Directed by	Quentin Tarantino
Written by	Quentin Tarantino Craig Hamann
Produced by	Quentin Tarantino Craig Hamann Rand Vossler
Starring	Quentin Tarantino Craig Hamann Crystal Shaw Allen Garfield Al Harrell Brenda Hillhouse Linda Kaye Stevo Polyi Alan Sanborn Rich Turner Rowland Wafford
Cinematography	Roger Avary Scott Magill Roberto A. Quezada Rand Vossler
Edited by	Quentin Tarantino
Distributed by	Super Happy Fun
Release date	1987 (1987)
Running time	70 minutes (original version) 36 minutes (remaining version)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5,000 (estimated)[1]

Plot

It’s Mickey’s birthday, and his girlfriend just left him. His friend Clarence shows up to give him a birthday he'll never forget.

Cast

Production

The film was made while Tarantino was working at the Video Archives, now closed, in Manhattan Beach, California.[3] The project started in 1984, when Hamann wrote a short 30- to 40-page script.

Tarantino became attached to the project as co-writer and director, and he and Hamann expanded the script to 80 pages. On an estimated budget of $5,000, the film was originally planned in a Super 8mm format. However, when Tarantino was able to borrow a 16mm camera from film director Fred Olen Ray, the film was shot in 16mm over the course of the next four years.[5] 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. It is the most overtly comedic film that Tarantino has made. In an interview with Charlie Rose (available on the Region 1 Collector's Edition DVD of Pulp Fiction), he referred to it as a "Martin and Lewis kind of thing."

It was long alleged that the original cut was about 70 minutes long, but due to a film lab fire, only 36 minutes of the film still exist.[1] In 2019, a book titled My Best Friend's Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film, written by Andrew J. Rausch, was published by BearManor Media. The book features interviews with all of the film's principal personnel, including Quentin Tarantino, Craig Hamann, and Roger Avary. In the book, it is revealed the fire story was fabricated, with Tarantino choosing not to dismiss it as he thought it sounded interesting. In actuality, some rolls of film were simply discarded by mistake, and Tarantino, unsatisfied with the final product, edited together the scenes he liked, leaving the project unfinished.[6] However, he has not dismissed the possibility of restoring and completing the film one day. The surviving footage has been edited together and shown at several film festivals.

See also

• List of incomplete or partially lost films

References

External links

• My Best Friend's Birthday at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] My Best Friend's Birthday

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[ru] День рождения моего лучшего друга

«День рождения моего лучшего друга» (англ. My Best Friend's Birthday) — первый фильм американского режиссёра Квентина Тарантино (хотя официально первым считается фильм «Бешеные псы», вышедший в 1992 году). Над фильмом Тарантино работал с 1984 по 1986 год, за это время было отснято много материала, но фильм остался незаконченным. В январе 2006 года усилиями поклонников Тарантино была сделана расшифровка сценария по уцелевшей части фильма. Фильм снят на чёрно-белую плёнку 16-миллиметровой камерой.

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