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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…

Alternative Titles

Una vita al massimo, Настоящая любовь, Amor à Queima-Roupa, 浪漫风暴, Tikroji meilė

romance action crime thriller

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Review by Katie 20

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 Tim Portis ★★★★★ 7

RIP Tony Scott. So many great movies. 'You're so cool.'
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 brat pitt ★★★½

seeing brad pitt take a sicccck bong rip and then ask the mafia if they want any changed me as a person
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".

Recent reviews

Review by HomerPower2000 ★★★★★

I won’t be able to look at the dad from Good Luck Charlie the same way again after watching this movie. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean.
Review by battlebees ★★★★★

So fun all the way through. Cried a lot.
Review by Angel Eyes ★★★★

Theft, drugs and murder. Who says romance is dead? TRUE ROMANCE is a moving roadmovie with two colorful characters who love each other over everything else on this planet. The movie's strong side is that Tony Scott has put in many good actors in small roles that raises the movie. The movie theme from Hans Zimmers is forever imprinted in my head.
Review by Justin Koch ★★★½

A lot of cool performances and moments that can compare to some of his best movies, but it just didn't work for me on the level of Tarantino's best movies. This is a cool ode to movies and Hollywood, but it doesn't feel like it has much to say otherwise. True Romance has the style and performances (and oh what a fantastic soundtrack) to be a movie stamped into history, but its' flaws make it no surprise that it hasn't lasted like Tarantino's 90s masterpieces Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. I looked at this as a Tarantino movie, but it's just as much Tony Scott's.
Review by Three Kung Fu Movies ★★★★

A great movie.

4 / 4
Review by Kevin Bertolero ★★★★

I eat the pussy, I eat the butt, I eat every motherfuckin' thang.
Review by fataldevation ★★★★

this film truly shows how true love can be ruined by the American dream.
it is a true dissection of the amercan culture of the late 90s and the bullshit of the bonny and Clyde dynamic in the vain of badlands.
Review by zephbug ★★★★

This is such a cool movie because it's like one of those situations where people would say like, "if you could have one director and one writer make a movie together who would it be?" So you're like "the director of Top Gun and the writer of Pulp Fiction." And this is the movie that was made. A fun adventure of descending madness.
Review by TinyPantsAndrew ★★★★

He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.