How "My Best Friend's Birthday" Foreshadows Tarantino's Career (Tarantino's First Film)

It may be a surprise to some that Quentin Tarantino actually has a film preceeding Reservoir Dogs. In 1987, he finished "My Best Friend's Birthday", a film written by himself and Craig Hamann, a friend from his local video store, Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California. Unfortunately, half of the film was destroyed in a fire, but what was left shows us Tarantino's talent showing even in an amateur production, and suggests much of what to come in terms of his style and technique, in later films such as Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. So let's take a look at Quentin Tarantino's first film.