Fresh
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.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
True Romance
Stealing. Cheating. Killing. Who said romance was dead?
1993 · 2h 1m · R
Action, Crime, Romance
Directed by
Tony Scott
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Tony Scott Director
- Christian Slater as Clarence Worley
- Patricia Arquette as Alabama Whitman
- Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley
- Val Kilmer as Mentor
- Gary Oldman as Drexl Spivey
- Brad Pitt as Floyd (Dick's Roommate)
- Christopher Walken as Vincenzo Coccotti
- Bronson Pinchot as Elliot Blitzer
- Samuel L. Jackson as Big Don
- Michael Rapaport Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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