Four Rooms
Four Rooms is a 1995 American anthology farce black comedy film co-written and co-directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino. The story is set in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Tim Roth plays Ted, the bellhop and main character in the frame story, whose first night on the job consists of four very different encounters with various hotel guests.
For the Channel 4 television programme, see Four Rooms (TV series).Four Rooms
- Allison Anders
- Alexandre Rockwell
- Robert Rodriguez
- Quentin Tarantino
- Margie Goodspeed
- Elena Maganini
- Robert Rodriguez
- Sally Menke
- December 25, 1995
98 minutes
United States
English
$4 million
$4.2 million[1]
Four Rooms was released in the United States on December 25, 1995, by Miramax Films. The film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the segments directed by Rodriguez and Tarantino, but heavily criticized the segments by Anders and Rockwell. For her role, Madonna won for Worst Supporting Actress at the 16th Golden Raspberry Awards.
The four segments are shown chronologically, except for "The Misbehavers", the events of which both precede and succeed the events of "The Wrong Man".
There are some connections between the four segments:
Production[edit]
Miramax presold Japanese distribution rights to Shochiku along with Gary Fleder's Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, George T. Miller's Robinson Crusoe, John Ehle's The Journey of August King and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers in a bulk acquisition deal.[2]
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
James Berardinelli of ReelViews described it as "one of 1995's major disappointments".[3] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post said it "asserts itself as a goof so laboriously and aggressively that you almost feel pinned back in your seat".[4] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times singled out Rodriguez's "The Misbehavers" segment as the funniest of the film and the one that most effectively capitalized on Roth.[5] Of Tarantino's "The Man from Hollywood" segment, Ebert said, "Tarantino had the right idea in choosing to satirize himself but unfortunately does not seem to understand why he is funny. A movie about him making this film could have been hilarious."[5]
The film won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress for Madonna.[6]
The film holds a 13% "Rotten" rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 45 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Four Rooms comes stocked with a ton of talent on both sides of the camera, yet only manages to add up to a particularly uneven – and dismayingly uninspired – anthology effort.[7]