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Four Rooms is a 1995 Black Comedy Round Robin Anthology film consisting of four segments. Ted is a young (and rather loopy) bellhop working at a once famous Los Angeles hotel that has fallen from grace and become a haven for criminals and creeps. On New Years Eve, he ends up with an interesting set of clientèle as the only employee on staff. Hilarity Ensues.
Honeymoon Suite - The Missing Ingredient
A coven of witches gather for a ceremony to resurrect their petrified goddess. Four of them brought their ingredients, but the fifth failed to bring hers; semen. When Ted shows up, he happens to be the closest male available.
Written and directed by Allison Anders.
Room 404 - The Wrong Man
After some drunk people at an Ambiguously Gay disco party ask for ice and screw up their room number, Ted ends up entering the room of a man holding his Bound and Gagged wife at gunpoint. Mistaking him for someone else, he gets forced to partake in a particularly odd S&M game because the man has a "big fucking gun".
Written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell
Room 309 - The Misbehavers
A Mexican gangster and his wife decide to leave their kids at the room for the night while they go to a party. Rather than call a babysitter, they pay Ted five hundred dollars to tend to them and make sure they don't misbehave. Finagle's Law immediately takes hold.
Written and directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Penthouse - The Man From Hollywood
After a brief phone call to his boss to be let off for the night, Ted ends up making one last stop. Chester Rush is a famous director (played by Quentin Tarantino) holding a private party with some of his buddies from the business. After seeing an old episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents where a man bets his little finger he can start a lighter ten times in a row, they decide to replicate it. Ted is asked to be the hatchet man.
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
- Adam Westing: Antonio Banderas plays a parody of his usual Mexican Badass role.
- Anachronic Order: The Wrong Man occurs during the Time Skip in The Misbehavers.
- Animated Credits Opening
- Berserk Button: Don't call Ted "Theodore".
- And don't call that whore a whore!
- Cluster F-Bomb: Especially in The Man From Hollywood. But hey, it is directed by Tarantino.
- Crying Wolf: The reason Ted doesn't believe the kids when they call him to report an actual emergency.
- Depending on the Writer: Ted's characterization changes quite a bit between segments.
- Enfant Terrible: The two kids in The Misbehavers.
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Kathy Griffin has one scene as Betty, the woman who was supposed to be assisting Ted, while Marisa Tomei plays her crack-smoking friend.
- How Unscientific: Evoked by The Missing Ingredient, which includes what is definitely magic in an otherwise realistic film.
- Humiliation Conga: After "The Misbehavers", Ted calls up his co-worker Betty to bring her up to speed (first having a conversation with her equally "loopy" roommate).
Betty: [finally getting on the phone] Ted? What's the problem? |
- Hurricane of Euphemisms: The Wrong Man has a whole lot of penis nicknames.
- Large Ham: Quentin Tarantino.
- New Year Has Come
- Nightmare Fuel: Unknowingly sleeping inches above a decaying corpse.
- Oner: A several minute long shot opens The Man From Hollywood.
- Sex as Rite-Of-Passage: One of the rare female examples in The Missing Ingredient.
- Shout-Out: The aforementioned episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which in turn was an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story.
- Signature Style: Each short is meant to communicate their writer/director's talents. Odds are very good one is not watching the film for the first two directors, though.
- The Cameo: Bruce Willis refused money (and creditation) for his role in "The Man From Hollywood" as a Thank You to Tarantino for casting him in Pulp Fiction.
- Tranquil Fury: Ted when describing the events of the night to Betty. See the Humiliation Conga example.
- Understatement: At the end of The Misbehavers, the father asks if his children misbehaved as all hell breaks loose in the room.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When investigating a smell coming from Room 309, the little girl removes the mattress to discover the "putrid rotting corpse of a dead whore." Ted then does his best Regan Macneil impression.
- Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: The party on the fifth floor appears to be like one of these.