Pulp PG

Write it. Live it. But try not to be it.
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 12, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1972
  • Label: Arrow Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 569
Rating: C -- Had some fun in it. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 4, 2001
Rating: 4/5 -- Pulp is an underrated comedic masterpiece. Full Review
Times (UK)
Dec 14, 2017
Hodges avails himself of the private-eye genre's deaths, sex and homophobia, yet comedy loosens his nihilism Full Review
CinePassion
Mar 16, 2010
Pulp is more of a cult classic, but its appeal and influence are nonetheless profound, and worth noting. Full Review
Cultured Vultures
Oct 23, 2019
Rating: 2/5 -- A sempre presente narração em off é um dos muitos problemas do filme - especialmente se considerarmos que o narrador é justamente um escritor medíocre.
Cinema em Cena
Dec 10, 2003
The pleasures here are director Mike Hodges' shaggy-dog script and Rooney's buoyant performance. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Apr 20, 2007
Rating: 7/10 -- It functions less as a pulpy mystery or gangster tale than as a spoof of same, albeit a spoof that retains a noirish sense of fate and power. Full Review
PopMatters
Jan 19, 2018

Description by OLDIES.com:

A year after they'd created one of the defining British gangster pictures with Get Carter, three Michaels - writer-director Mike Hodges, producer Michael Klinger and star Michael Caine - reunited for another crime picture, albeit with a more oddball flavour... Caine plays Mickey King, a successful pulp novelist responsible for such titles as My Gun Is Long and The Organ Grinder, who is invited to ghost-write the autobiography of a mystery celebrity. His client turns out to be a former actor, played by Mickey Rooney, well-known for his gangster roles and real-life gangster connections - but death is around the corner, and King finds his commission to be a lot more complicated than he first imagined. A favourite of J.B. Ballard, Pulp has long existed in the shadow of its predecessor. Tonally, it could not be more different - Get Carter never had the time for sight gags and one-liners - but it's a real gem in its own right and fully deserving of a wider audience. This brand-new restoration from Arrow Films aims to right that wrong.

Product Description:

A retired expatriate Hollywood actor, who starred in gangster movies, hires a paperback writer to ghost his autobiography. But the mystery writer soon becomes a target for murder.

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  • Sales Rank: 116,187
  • UPC: 760137066095
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