Quentin Tarantino – My Best Friend’s Birthday [1987 Short Film]

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The film was completed, but the final reel was destroyed in a lab fire that broke out during editing. The surviving part of the film was shown in part to a small crowd in early 1987.

Actor Allen Garfield was teaching Quentin Tarantino acting at the time, and that is how he also became involved in the project. Filmed over three years, from 1984-1987.

Some of the dialogue would go on to be used in Quentin’s script “True Romance”.