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True Romance (1993)

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 41 | 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: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | 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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Movie Info

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

R, 1 hr. 56 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Tony Scott

Written By: Quentin Tarantino

In Theaters: Sep 10, 1993 Wide

On DVD: Sep 30, 1997

Warner Bros.

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Cast

Christian Slater
Clarence Worley
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
Billy Hopkins
Lawrence Mason
Floyd "D"
Risa Bramon Garcia
Joe D'Angerio
Police Radio Operator
Steve Gonzales
L.A. Officer
Ed Lauter

Critic Reviews for True Romance

All Critics (45) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (48) | 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.

August 16, 2009 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.

November 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

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This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.

May 12, 2001 Comments (2)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

The movie may be stylistically visceral, but it's aesthetically corrupt. It might as well have been called Pump Up the Violence.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Richard Harrington

Washington Post

Top Critic

About as good as contemporary Hollywood movies get.

August 16, 2009 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

Such a rush that it's only towards the end that you realise the picture is less than the sum of its impressive parts.

August 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

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]

June 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

...a study in all-out, over-the-top bloodshed, irony, tenderness, and laughs. (Blu-ray Edition)

May 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...a chase picture, a gangster picture, and a wacky, turbulent romance...sort of a Bonnie and Clyde on speed.

May 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

insanely transcendent

May 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Jason McKiernan

Filmcritic.com

My Favorite Movie Of All Time

August 2, 2008 Comments (2)

Kevin McCarthy

BDK Reviews

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.

January 9, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

like always, Walken owns the movie

April 3, 2006 Full Review Source: sbs.is

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Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

God I wish I had written this movie.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Brad Laidman

Film Threat

A hip, clever and irreverent high-voltage thriller with nary a dull moment.

July 28, 2005 Comment

Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Fast, Fun and Fantastically performed....One hot little movie

May 12, 2005 Comment

Clint Morris

Moviehole

One of the most dynamic action films of the 1990s.

April 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star

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Phil Villarreal

Arizona Daily Star

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Filled with great dialogue, characters and performances, the only negative to True Romance is when you start thinking about what it could have been if Quentin Tarantino had directed it.

March 25, 2012

Graham Jones

Super Reviewer

Don't let the title fool you, this isn't some sappy love story, its a thrilling comedy/crime film with jolts of action and violence, coupled with a great script penned by the masterful Quentin Tarantino.

October 8, 2011

Daniel Lermenator

Super Reviewer

True Romance Quotes

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1. Clifford Worley: Now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you-- you're part eggplant.
– Submitted by Patrick D (44 days ago)
1. Clifford Worley: Can I have that Chesterfield now?
– Submitted by James M (46 days ago)
1. Clarence Worley: What about you?
2. Alabama Worley: What about me?
3. Clarence Worley: Tell me a bit about yourself.
– Submitted by Baurushan J (3 months ago)
1. Lee Donowitz: Don't give me the finger! I'll have you killed!
– Submitted by Steve M (4 months ago)
1. Floyd - Dick's Roomate: I'll fuckin' kill ya man.
– Submitted by Michael C (4 months ago)

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