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Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Writers:
Quentin Tarantino (character The Bride) &
Uma Thurman (character The Bride) ...
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Release Date:
10 October 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Thriller more
Tagline:
In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill more
Plot:
The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 41 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(682 articles)
Thurman keen for 'Kill Bill 3' training
 (From digitalspy. 6 November 2009, 7:58 AM, PST)

Thurman Eager To Shape Up For Kill Bill
 (From WENN. 5 November 2009, 11:21 AM, PST)

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Gorgeous! more (1959 total)
US TV Schedule:
Sun. Nov. 81:00 AMSPIKETV   

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Kill Bill (USA) (informal short title)
Kill Bill Part 1 (USA) (informal title)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (USA) (alternative spelling)
Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume One (USA) (promotional title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content.
Runtime:
111 min | Japan:112 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Taiwan:R-18 | Malaysia:18SG (re-rating) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Iceland:16 | Germany:18 | Hungary:18 | USA:NC-17 (Special Edition DVD) | South Korea:18 (re-rating) (cut) (DVD rating) (uncut) | Singapore:R(A) | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Brazil:18 | Canada:16+ (Québec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Israel:16 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:R-15 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Poland:15 | Portugal:M/16 | South Africa:18 | South Korea:Limited (original rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #40294)
Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas, USA more
Company:
Miramax Films more

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Trivia:
The original trailer for this film, although featuring no actual bloodshed, raised the ire of the MPAA with the sight of The Bride's blood-stained clothes. As such it became the first to be subjected to the MPAA's new "no blood" policy for trailers, in which all sight of the bodily fluid must be alternately colored or removed entirely. This is why the trailers for this film (and similarly for every film released in the US thereafter) feature The Bride's clothes covered in blackish-brown stains where the blood would be. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Oren's eyes are blue in the beginning of the film. In the later part of the film, they are brown. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
[cocks pistol]
Bill: masochistic.
The Bride: Bill... it's your baby...
[BLAM!]
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Movie Connections:
References Shikoku (1999) more
Soundtrack:
Ironside more

FAQ

A Note Regarding Spoilers
When The Bride fights O-Ren it's snowing outside; however, when they are travelling to the House of Blue Leaves, there is no sign of snow. Is the garden some kind of fake scenario or are we supposed to suspend reality here?
Who is the father of Vernita Green's daughter? She looks mixed and is almost as old as The Bride's child would've been; is it Bill's?
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204 out of 326 people found the following comment useful.
Gorgeous!, 1 March 2005
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Author: Emma from Sweden

A lot of people have come up to me and said "How can you love Quentin that much, he is just too extreme!" or "Oh come on, Kill Bill is just SO not realistic.." Yes. No.

Mr. Quentin Tarantino is rather extreme, yes, and it's lovely! And No. Kill Bill is not realistic, but it's not meant to be realistic! Just like... Lord of the Rings, that's not realistic either! But because it has clear unreal elements, like wizards, it's acceptable?

You don't go to see Kill Bill, or any other Q.T-film to see "Stepmom", in the same way you don't go to a Marilyn Manson concert hoping that they will play some Spice Girls..

Kill Bill, both volume 1 and 2, is absolutely gorgeous! The art direction is beautiful! The camera angles are perfect... just Gorgeous! The lighting, the sound, the dialogs... and of course, the details! No one works with small details the way Quentin does. I must also say that the soundtrack is brilliant and the whole film is just so well casted! Uma Thurman is perfect in the leading role, Darryl Hannah has never been this good before, ever! And Chiaki Kuriyama, even though she has a quite small role, is excellent, even better than she is in "Battle Royale". David Carradine is painfully perfect, Michael Madsen is ALWAYS excellent, but never as good as when he works with Tarantino. I must also say that Sonny Chiba was great. I've never been a big fan of Vivica A Fox until now, and I used to think that Lucy Liu was just your average actor but she turned out to be fierce. Pretty much everyone who is in this film is ten times better than they've ever been.

But above all things, Kill Bill is artistic, beautiful... Perfect colors, perfect everything... gotta love it.

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