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Four Rooms movie storyline. This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It’s New Year’s Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop.
He’s on his first night on the job, when he’s asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster’s kids for him while he’s away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.
Four Rooms is a 1995 American anthology comedy film directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, each directing a segment of it that in its entirety is loosely based on the adult short fiction writings of Roald Dahl, especially Man from the South which is the basis for the last one, Penthouse – “The Man from Hollywood” directed by 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.
The Segments of the Film
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:
— In “The Wrong Man”, Ted recalls the witches’ ritual in “The Missing Ingredient” with the expression “weird voodoo thing”.
— Ted can be seen with the two cherries from “The Missing Ingredient” at the beginning of “The Misbehavers”.
— Sarah in “The Misbehavers” calls a random room to ask a question. The man who picks up happens to be Siegfried from “The Wrong Man”.
— Angela appears in both “The Wrong Man” and “The Man from Hollywood”.
— When calling his boss, just before the beginning of “The Man from Hollywood”, Ted recalls the events of the first three segments.
Four Rooms (1995)
Directed by: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Beals, Paul Calderon, Sammi Davis, Valeria Golino, Madonna, David Proval, Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Tamlyn Tomita, Salma Hayek
Screenplay by: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Production Design by: Gary Frutkoff
Cinematography by: Rodrigo García, Guillermo Navarro, Phil Parmet, Andrzej Sekuła
Film Editing by: Margie Goodspeed, Elena Maganini, Sally Menke, Robert Rodriguez
Costume Design by: Susan L. Bertram, Mary Claire Hannan
Set Decoration by: Sara Andrews
Art Direction by: Mayne Berke
Music by: Combustible Edison, Esquivel
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong language, sexuality and some drug use.
Distributed by: Miramax Films
Release Date: December 25, 1995
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