Rating: NR
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 09/24/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS/DTS
Run Time: 121 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Substance Abuse
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of
action and dark
comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit
Pulp Fiction.
Clarence Worley (
Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a
Sonny Chiba triple-feature at a downtown grindhouse.
Clarence is celebrating his birthday in just such a manner when he meets a beautiful girl named
Alabama (
Patricia Arquette), and it's love at first sight for both of them.
Clarence's enthusiasm isn't dampened much when he discovers
Alabama is actually a prostitute who was paid by his boss to bump into him; she's only been in the business for a few days, and is more than eager to give up streetwalking to be with
Clarence. However,
Alabama is certain her pimp,
Drexl (
Gary Oldman), will not be happy; he's an ill-mannered sort with mob connections and a fondness for violence. Chivalrous
Clarence offers to break the news to
Drexl and collect her belongings, but he doesn't tell her he also plans to kill
Drexl while he's there; a melee breaks out that leaves
Drexl and his henchmen dead.
Clarence grabs a suitcase that he thinks contains
Alabama's clothes, but he discovers it instead holds five million dollars' worth of cocaine. The couple hits the road for California, planning to sell the dope and enjoy the good life in South America with the proceeds, but soon a group of very unhappy underworld characters are after them, as well as the police.
True Romance also stars
Dennis Hopper as
Clarence's father,
Christopher Walken as a mob boss who wants his cocaine back,
Brad Pitt as a cheerful stoner, and
Val Kilmer as the ghost of
Elvis Presley.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
