Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his...
Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction.
When an inexperienced call girl, Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette), is paid to seduce comic-book-nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence Worley (Christian Slater), they quickly pledge their love and marry. Alabama's pimp (Gary Oldman), however, isn't eager to let her go.
Fleeing confrontation and leaving behind a trail of bodies, the couple run from the police, the mob and an angry pimp.
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"Patricia Arquette is great, although Christian Slater is comprehensively out-acted and out-charismad by everyone else on screen..."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Tarantino’s dirty, funny and unpredictably violent genius powers True Romance..."
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The Times
The Times"Despite its noir references and evocations, this slick film... is a preposterously bloody mess, as is the plot."
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post"The varying sensibilities of Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott come together to fashion one of the cornerstone films of the early 1990s."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Pulp Fiction is certainly the richer, more complex film, but True Romance nonetheless has much in common with it, and feels like a dry run, right down to the genre-fixing title."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"This is not only an immensely entertaining violent action but genuinely romantic at times."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough."
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Variety
Variety"If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way."
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Time Out
Time Out"This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist."
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Roger Ebert
Roger EbertTrue Romance | Details
- Rating
- R18+, High level violence, Coarse language
- Runtime
- 120
- Genre
- Romance, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
