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QT8: The First Eight

Name: QT8: The First Eight
Director: Tara Wood
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-10-21
Duration: 103 min
Cast: Quentin Tarantino, Zoë Bell, Louis Black, Bruce Dern, Robert Forster

2019 · 1h 43m · Documentary

If you're a film nerd or Tarantino stan, absolutely watch this tonight—it's a fascinating deep dive into how one video store clerk became cinema's most influential provocateur. Fair warning: it's a doc, not a thriller, so dial back expectations if you want pure entertainment, but the story of QT's rise and the Weinstein reckoning is genuinely gripping.

Plot

A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.

Director: Tara Wood

Cast: Quentin Tarantino, Zoë Bell, Louis Black, Bruce Dern, Robert Forster

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