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True Romance

1993 Directed by Tony Scott

Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance was dead?

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Christian Slater Patricia Arquette Michael Rapaport Bronson Pinchot Gary Oldman Dennis Hopper Christopher Walken Brad Pitt Tom Sizemore Samuel L. Jackson Saul Rubinek James Gandolfini Frank Adonis Paul Bates Val Kilmer Chris Penn Anna Levine Eric Allan Kramer Conchata Ferrell Victor Argo Said Faraj Gregory Sporleder Maria Pitillo Kevin Corrigan Paul Ben-Victor Michael Beach Joe D'Angerio John Bower John Cenatiempo Show All…

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Review by Tim Portis ★★★★★ 7

RIP Tony Scott. So many great movies. 'You're so cool.'
Review by Katie 15

i wonder if quentin tarantino orgasams everytime he finds an excuse to write a scene where a white person saying the n word! would not fucking surprise me! and when he gets to say it? HE MUST JUST FUCKING LOVE THAT!!!!
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★½ 12

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I don't know why this over the top film works but it does! A geeky nerds comic book fantasy comes alive on the big screen!

Perhaps it's the stylized ultra violence! One memorable scene between Gary Oldman and Christian Slater comes to mind involving castration by gun! And that was just the tip of the iceberg!

Perhaps it was the duel between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper where the weapon of choice is Tarantino-esque versification!

Perhaps it was the Mother of All Smackdowns scenes featuring Gandolfini doing what Gandolfini does best and he's doing it to Patricia Arquette! Truly terrifying and brutal stuff that made me wince more than once!

Perhaps it was the amusing often times funny chatter going…
Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★★★½ 2

"If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together."

I would never have guessed that Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino would ever go together, but what a pleasant surprise this romantic crime thriller turned out to be. Thanks to a sharp and witty script and entertaining characters True Romance was extremely cool. The best way I can describe this film is to take Patricia Arquette's character's words and sound like a broken record: all I could think of while watching this film was Quentin Tarantino you are so cool; Tony Scott you are so cool; every single actor in this film you are so cool, True…
Review by matt lynch ★★★★

The Tony Scott / Tarantino episode of "Seinfeld".
Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★★ 1

Just after the opening credits of True Romance reads "Directed by Tony Scott," Patricia Arquette walks into the theater, stumbling upon Christian Slater as they start a Street Fighter trilogy marathon. As I sat in the theater, gazing upon this scene imprinted on 35mm film, it was an experience like none other- almost metaphysical in its likeness- as if Scott had deliberately intended the audience to become pulled into this wild and engrossing adventure of love on the run that was about to ensue. And in that moment, as a wandering elderly couple walked into my theater just after this scene began, it became clear that this was exactly what was happening to me. Scott had successfully ensnared my senses and attention into his masterful world that he and writer Quentin Tarantino had built from their love of the art, and I couldn't have asked for a better way to appreciate the wonderfully versatile world of cinema as a whole.

Recent reviews

Review by how's it hangin fellas ★★★★

90s Zimmer was the best
Review by Gatozangado ★★★★★

Nothing negative to point out. Amazing from start to finish.
Review by Michael. Oberst ★★★★½

I asked a bong maker how much it would cost to make an exact replica of the honey bear bong but glass and she said it’d cost $600. So. It’s good to have goals I guess.
Review by Briggs ★★★★

Home in a Body Bag 2? More like Badlands 2 am I right?
Review by luc evans ★★★★½

92/100
Review by That Boy ★★★½

3,5 stars for the balls it took to make this.
Review by Churd ★★½

This is fun sometimes, but I'm definitely not a big fan of it.
Review by Justin Powell ★★★★½

So Tarantino was working at a Video Store and at someone point was like, I love BADLANDS but I can do better maybe? I wish I was that confident. The funny though is that this is so close to being the best Tarantino film ever made. Also, Patricia Arquette was throwing heat in '93.
Review by Ye Lin Aung ★★★★½

This is really a cool movie.