Which Tarantino film opens with the diner robbers Pumpkin and Honey Bunny?

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Pulp Fiction opens with the diner robbers Pumpkin and Honey Bunny.

The pair, played by Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, are having breakfast when they decide to rob the diner. Their conversation about sticking up restaurants turns into an attempted hold-up, creating the film’s opening sequence before the story jumps to another time and place.

They return near the end of the film, when Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are eating breakfast after retrieving Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny demand the briefcase, but Jules overpowers Pumpkin and chooses to let the couple leave with only his wallet.

This framing device is one of Pulp Fiction’s signature structural tricks. The film was released in 1994 and uses a deliberately rearranged chronology, so the diner scene is both the opening and part of the story’s concluding episode. It is not the opening of Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, or Death Proof.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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