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

Amor à Queima-Roupa, Pravdivá romance, 浪漫風暴, Una vita al massimo, Tikroji meilė, Настоящая любовь

thriller romance action crime

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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 katie 22

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 matt lynch ★★★★

The Tony Scott / Tarantino episode of "Seinfeld".
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…

Recent reviews

Review by dyvetz

Only person missing from this is Clarence's boss, the guy who hired Alabama.
Review by Steph Mill ★★★½

Pick your fighter: a dreadlocked Gary Oldman, a fake tanned Christopher Walken, or a bong ripping Brad Pitt asking Tony Soprano if he wants to watch tv with him
Review by paulmirek ★★★★

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

Tarantino's Clarence/Alice follows the out-of-time Alabama through the looking glass into a Hollywood wonderland of pimps, pushers, cops, and cheats — and lives to tell the tale. Tony Scott's direction is about as far from QT's usual laconic style as you can get, and leads to some sometimes hilarious semiotic mismatches. But a movie that's so unironically in love with its own movie-ness can't help but win me over, and by the time the feathers start flying, it's easy to see why this one is so beloved.
Review by martha ★★★★

soundtrack 10/10. directing 10/10. tarantino’s screenplay 10/10. costumes 10/10. i lurv everything abt this film. patricia arquette is so gorgeous and so is christian slater. would highly recommend although it has the same popularity as pulp fiction and nbk
Review by Steven Barrett ★★★★

Clarence and Alabama take on the world in a rollercoaster ride of a film from the pen of Quentin Tarantino. As you’d expect it’s got the lot: cool music, movie and comic book references, Christopher Walken, James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, sharp dialogue, dark malice, exhilarating plot, pimps, drugs and guns. I mean come on.
Review by Namsrhodes ★★

Urg
This film oozes Tarantino like an infected wound oozes pus...
Patricia Arquette becomes merely ornamental once her character has done her bit to push the plot along.
She is however a beautiful object with few great moments of fierceness.
Misplaced piano theme and stoner Pitt is pretty great though.
Review by Leslye Janette ★★★★

bonnie & clyde versión contemporánea con final feliz pa los protagonistas
Review by Muhil Vaseekaran

Mixed feelings. I enjoyed it and will gladly rewatch it, but there are also many flaws. The dialogue was excellent, classic Tarantino, but I was surprised at how iffy the pacing was. Maybe if Tarantino also directed the end result would be different. Patricia Arquette was really annoying in this movie. She’s good in other films, but this role did not work for me. It was entertaining and satisfying, though a bit cheesy considering Tarantino wrote it.
Review by neve ★★★★

BOB DUNCAN WITH A PONYTAIL