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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 4245
Released: April 20, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Don't miss the fun in this hilariously sexy comedy that has Antonio Banderas (THE MASK OF ZORRO), Madonna (EVITA), and a sizzling all-star cast checking in for laughs! It's Ted the Bellhop's (Tim Roth -- PULP FICTION) first night on the job ... and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments! It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening ... after another! Also featuring Academy Award(R) winner Marisa Tomei (1992 Best Supporting Actress, MY COUSIN VINNY), FOUR ROOMS is a wild night of highly original comedy entertainment you'll enjoy ... without reservations!
Description of Four Rooms:
This unbearable quartet of stories was written and directed by hot filmmakers Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging), and Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup), which only proves that even the smart guys can really blow it sometimes. The anthology is linked by the hotel in which all the events are taking place, and by Tim Roth as a bellboy flitting from scene to scene. Nobody overcomes the insufferable air of self-congratulation that permeates this exercise in forced hipness. With Bruce Willis, Madonna, Lili Taylor, Ione Skye, Jennifer Beals, and Antonio Banderas. --Tom Keogh
Four Rooms Reviews:
Four Rooms 
2009-04-18 - Four rooms was a rather funny movie. Worth watching. Amazon delivery was outstanding.
Great movie classic 
2009-02-27 - One of the most memorable endings, and some of the funniest scenes in cinema. Everyone can appreciate something from this film. Sex, violence, kidnapping, dismemberment, foul language, witchcraft, drugs and alcohol, and Tim Roth playing the quirky bellhop in the center of all the mayhem. Truly a classic.
I'm in a situation I can't begin to explain 
2008-12-10 - Ted the Bellhop: I'm in a situation I can't begin to explain
Four Rooms is a project where four directors each write and direct a segment, all dealing with Ted the Bellhop (Tim Roth) in a hotel on New Year's Eve. In this case, old acquaintances should be forgot, and the Bellhop is not getting a tip. Though Tim Roth is a good actor, he couldn't save this project, and with four directors, four directions, it was a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. In Tarantino's segment he refers to the movie "The Bell Boy," and Jerry Lewis' performance in which he never uttered a single word. Genius it was, but Tim Roth is no Jerry Lewis, nor is he a Charlie Chaplin, or even a Johnny Depp playing a lost soul with a Buster Keaton fixation such as he did in "Benny and Joon." The role was created with Steve Buscemi in mind, but even he couldn't have saved this project.
Since the duties were split four ways, the blame can also be divvied up, but Quentin seems to be the chief instigator, and he had the audacity to not only write, direct, and star in his segment, but he was annoying in all three capacities. Though it went nowhere, the first segment was entertaining for a few brief seconds, just because it featured a bevy of beauties, Madonna, Lili Taylor, Ione Skye, Amanda De Cadenet, etc., as a coven of witches; and Alicia Witt as Madonna's bratty young punque roque girlfriend. I heart Alicia Witt, because she is a smart and sassy red head. Kathy Griffin, another sassy red head, is also wasted in "Four Rooms." Flashdancer Jennifer Beals appears in two of the four rooms, but even though my niece said it was the best movie ever, I say it was just an excuse for a bunch of actors and directors to goof off.
Directed & Written by
Allison Anders (segment "The Missing Ingredient")
Alexandre Rockwell (segment "The Wrong Man")
Robert Rodriguez (segment "The Misbehavers")
Quentin Tarantino (segment "The Man from Hollywood")
Gas Food Lodging (1992) ... Directed by Alison Annders [Ione Skye was Trudi]
13 Moons (2002) ... Directed by Alexandre Rockwell [Jennifer Beals was Suzi]
El Mariachi (Special Edition) (1992) ... Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2007) ... [Quentin Tarantino's segment "Death Proof" Robert Rodriguez's segment was "Planet Terror"]
The Rachel Papers (1989) .... Ione Skye was Rachel Noyce [Amanda De Cadenet was Cathy]
Say Anything ... (1989) .... Ione Skye was Diane Court [Lili Taylor was Corey Flood]
River's Edge (1986) (as Ione Skye Leitch) .... Ione Skye was Clarissa
Flashdance (1983) .... Jennifer Beals was Alex Owens
Dogfight (1991) .... Lili Taylor was Rose
Playing Mona Lisa (2000) .... Alicia Witt was Claire Goldstein
Kiva: You're not my mother.
Elspeth: Yes I am.
Kiva: Then why are we sleeping together?
Four Rooms - Five Stars
2008-10-15 - Tarintino returns with his steady cast of players for another supremely entertaining show. Four Rooms moves the talent around with Tim Ross running with the lead.
The cast is, as always in Quentin's movies, fabulous.
The script, as always in Quentin's movies, fabulous.
A don't miss for Tarintino fans. A should see for just about everyone else 8 to 80.
One room too many 
2008-09-27 - Four Rooms is an anthology film with segments directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino. What links the four films together is Ted the Bellhop (Tim Roth). His first night happens to be New Year's Eve and the hotel guests make sure that it is one wild celebration that Ted will never forget. The first film entitled "The Missing Ingredient" is directed by Anders and stars Madonna, Lili Taylor, Alicia Witt, Valeria Golino, and Ione Skye. They are a coven of witches who plan on bringing one of their own back to life. Each witch is responsible for bringing one essential ingredient for the spell to work. Some of the ingredients include breast milk, and virgin's blood. The Skye character is the only one who doesn't have her specific ingredient. In order to get it she's going to need a little assistance and that is where Ted comes in. He's the only person who can give her what she needs, so it falls on her to seduce him while the other witches wait outside. The Missing Ingredient in this film for me was Ione Skye's top. I'm not complaining since this short film sets the tone for what's to come. The second film, and most boring, is directed by Rockwell and entitled "The Wrong Man". Jennifer Beals stars as a wife who finds herself tied to a chair and being held at gunpoint by her jealous husband who thinks she's sleeping with Ted. Beals has some funny lines about Ted's member which cause Ted and her husband Siegfried (David Proval) to turn red with embarrassment. This one didn't play as well as the other ones and kinda slowed the film down. Rodriguez and Tarantino are the closers as Rodriguez directs the third film "The Misbehavers". It's kind of like his Spy Kids movies and even has Antonio Banderas. Banderas and his wife are going out to a New Year's Eve party and they hire Ted to look after their two rambunctious kids. He is to have them in bed before midnight. Sleeping is the last thing on the kids' mind since the boy is too busy watching a bikini clad chick (Salma Hayek) dancing on T.V. and the young girl is horrified to discover used needles and the decaying body of a prostitute under the mattress. Not surprisingly Tarantino's film "The Man from Hollywood" is the longest one. It is a remake of an old "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode. Tarantino stars along with Paul Calderon, an uncredited Bruce Willis, and a barefoot Jennifer Beals. If you can't stand watching the Q.T. try to act this one might be painful for you as he casts himself as the hottest young director in Hollywood. He's just bet one of his drunk friends his Cadillac De Ville if a lighter doesn't light. Let me explain. On the Hitchcock episode a man bets that he can light an old lighter x amount of times in a row before the flame goes out. If he succeeds he gets the car, if he doesn't he has to chop off one of his fingers. Truth be told Tarantino's acting isn't that embarrassing and this segment is a lot of fun. It isn't hard to see why this film is a cult classic since there are enough odd and darkly funny moments that will keep you guessing. It's also a nice reminder of when Miramax and Tarantino were the biggest and most successful names in Independent Cinema.
