Every week, Ultimate Movie Year looks back into the past to highlight the best film that came out that weekend.

"Pulp Fiction"
Released Oct. 14, 1994
Directed by Quentin Tarantino

I've loved movies all of my life, but the way I've watched movies changed forever after I saw "Pulp Fiction."

With a title that echoes dime-store crime novels, "Pulp Fiction" follows about a half-dozen unsavory characters living their lives in Los Angeles in a series of interconnected short films. Among our protagonists include Vincent (John Travolta), a heroin-addled but savvy mob enforcer who's just returned from a life in Amsterdam; Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), his sometime partner who can't help but be the coolest and baddest MFer in the room; Butch (Bruce Willis), an underdog boxer looking to prove himself one last time; Marcellus (Ving Rhames), the mob boss over all of them; and Mia (Uma Thurman), Marcellus' wife who goes out one night with Vincent. While the stories feature the same characters, they don't necessarily build upon one another and are told out of sequence, contributing to the feeling that anything can, and does, happen.