True Romance (1993)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 4
Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 2
Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense.
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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
Sep 10, 1993 Wide
Sep 30, 1997
Warner Bros.
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Cast
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Christian Slater
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Patricia Arquette
Alabama Worley -
Dennis Hopper
Clifford Worley -
Gary Oldman
Drexl Spivey -
Brad Pitt
Floyd - Dick's Roomate -
Christopher Walken
Vincenzo Coccotti -
Val Kilmer
Mentor -
Bronson Pinchot
Elliot Blitzer -
Michael Rapaport
Dick Ritchie -
Saul Rubinek
Lee Donowitz -
Chris Penn
Nick Dimes -
Tom Sizemore
Cody Nicholson -
Samuel L. Jackson
Big Don -
Frank Adonis
Frankie -
Victor Argo
Lenny -
Paul Bates
Marty -
Michael Beach
Wurlitzer -
Paul Ben-Victor
Luca -
John Cenatiempo
1st Squad Cop -
Kevin Corrigan
Marvin -
Said Faraj
Burger Man -
Conchata Ferrell
Mary Louise Ravencroft -
James Gandolfini
Virgil -
Dennis Garber
1st Lobby Cop -
Patrick John Hurley
Monty -
Eric Allan Kramer
Boris -
Anna Levine
Lucy -
Maria Pitillo
Kandi -
Gregory Sporleder
Burger Stand Customer -
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Lawrence Mason
Floyd "D" -
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Joe D'Angerio
Police Radio Operator -
Steve Gonzales
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All Critics (47) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (4) | DVD (28)
If shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam to the max.
Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.
If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.
This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.
It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.
Sifting through the bloody, pulpy trash of True Romance -- should you care to -- you'll find amusing, smart-alecky nuggets planted by screenwriter Quentin Tarantino.
...a pulpy good time that holds up remarkably well two decades after its theatrical release...
...[a] violently funny genre mishmash that gave Tony Scott's new life, and also transmitted Quentin Tarantino's vision more credibly than the screenwriter and then-novice director could have done himself.
About as good as contemporary Hollywood movies get.
Such a rush that it's only towards the end that you realise the picture is less than the sum of its impressive parts.
A hall of fame guy's movie...[with] a macho '90s ensemble eclipsed only by Glengarry Glen Ross...the monologues--oh, the monologues! [Blu-ray]
...a study in all-out, over-the-top bloodshed, irony, tenderness, and laughs. (Blu-ray Edition)
...a chase picture, a gangster picture, and a wacky, turbulent romance...sort of a Bonnie and Clyde on speed.
insanely transcendent
My Favorite Movie Of All Time
Based on an early script from Tarantino, Tony Scott's wild movie is amour fou for youth of the 1990s, a gutsy, violent, often exciting picture likely to divide film critics.
like always, Walken owns the movie
God I wish I had written this movie.
A hip, clever and irreverent high-voltage thriller with nary a dull moment.
Audience Reviews for True Romance
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- Vincenzo Coccotti: What we are doing is having a game show and tell. You aren't telling me anything, but you're showing me everything.
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- Clifford Worley: So if that's a fact tell me... Am I lying?
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- Vincenzo Coccotti: I haven't killed anybody...since 1984.
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- Floyd - Dick's Roomate: You guy's wanna smoke a bowl or...
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- Clifford Worley: 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.
- Vincenzo Coccotti: You're a cantaloupe.
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- Alabama Worley: Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.
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