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True Romance

  • 1993
  • R
  • 1h 59m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
255K
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POPULARITY
849
187
Brad Pitt, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, and Christopher Walken in True Romance (1993)
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In Detroit, a pop-culture enthusiast steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.In Detroit, a pop-culture enthusiast steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.In Detroit, a pop-culture enthusiast steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.

  • Director
    • Tony Scott
  • Writers
    • Quentin Tarantino
    • Roger Avary
  • Stars
    • Christian Slater
    • Patricia Arquette
    • Dennis Hopper
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    255K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    849
    187
    • Director
      • Tony Scott
    • Writers
      • Quentin Tarantino
      • Roger Avary
    • Stars
      • Christian Slater
      • Patricia Arquette
      • Dennis Hopper
    • 663User reviews
    • 159Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 10 nominations total

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    Christian Slater
    Christian Slater
    • Clarence Worley
    Patricia Arquette
    Patricia Arquette
    • Alabama Whitman
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • Clifford Worley
    Val Kilmer
    Val Kilmer
    • Mentor
    Gary Oldman
    Gary Oldman
    • Drexl Spivey
    Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    • Floyd (Dick's Roommate)
    Christopher Walken
    Christopher Walken
    • Vincenzo Coccotti
    Bronson Pinchot
    Bronson Pinchot
    • Elliot Blitzer
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Samuel L. Jackson
    • Big Don
    Michael Rapaport
    Michael Rapaport
    • Dick Ritchie
    Saul Rubinek
    Saul Rubinek
    • Lee Donowitz
    Conchata Ferrell
    Conchata Ferrell
    • Mary Louise Ravencroft
    James Gandolfini
    James Gandolfini
    • Virgil
    Anna Thomson
    Anna Thomson
    • Lucy
    Victor Argo
    Victor Argo
    • Lenny
    Paul Bates
    Paul Bates
    • Marty
    Chris Penn
    Chris Penn
    • Nicky Dimes
    Tom Sizemore
    Tom Sizemore
    • Cody Nicholson
    • Director
      • Tony Scott
    • Writers
      • Quentin Tarantino
      • Roger Avary
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    User reviews663

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    Infofreak

    Tony Scott vs Quentin Tarantino. The winner? Us!

    Cynical, seen-it-all-before smart ass that I am, I can't but help love 'True Romance'! On paper it looks like a sure fire recipe for disaster. A typically hip pop-culture saturated Quentin Tarantino script directed by schlockmeister Tony Scott, the man responsible for rancid Simpson/Bruckheimer "blockbusters" like 'Top Gun' and 'Days Of Thunder'. But some how it really works! The movie is especially helped by a dynamite cast, one of the most impressive in many years. Possibly only Julian Schnabel's underrated biopic 'Basquiat' can rival its mixture of star power and cult faves. Slater, Arquette, Walken, Hopper, Oldman, Kilmer, Penn, Sizemore, Jackson, Rapaport, Gandolfini, Argo, Corrigan, etc.etc. These are many of the finest actors working today. Add them to an electric story of love on the run, jam packed with amusing, highly quotable dialogue and plenty of action and laughs, and you have yourself a genuinely entertaining update of a classic 70s drive-in movie. 'True Romance' is a wild ride not to be missed!
    eriveros

    Romeo and Juliet for the 90s

    True Romance has everything necessary to create art on celluloid. From the writing expertise of Quentin Tarantino to Tony Scott's brilliant directing to its cast of gifted actors, the movie is all that one would hope for.

    Beginning in Detroit and ending in Mexico, a loner that never really made his mark on the world meets a call girl who falls as deeply in love with him as he does with her. Filled with drugs, gangsters, Hollywood and of course romance, the movie's story becomes only stronger as the movie goes on.

    With exceptional performances by Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken (the scene they share is without equal), Gary Oldman and Christian Slater, the action and violence only help to develop the plot and accentuate it's intricacies. Its superb ending has since been imitated - by Tony Scott's own Enemy of the State for one - but never as cleverly.

    A must see for any movie lover.
    8Aaron1375

    The movie is kind of all over the place, but it somehow works!

    This film is about a guy who falls in love with a hooker and marries her. What a lovely story, taking this poor miscreant off the streets and showing her that he is willing to take care of her. Of course, you know everything is going to go without a hitch. Not really, from a crazed white pimp who thinks he is black to mob types to undercover cops this couple is going to have a really hard time getting to the honeymoon. The film has lots of violence, some sex, and inexplicably Bronson Pinchot who at the time was still most known as the lovable Balki from the television show "Perfect Strangers". Well here he plays a guy who gets caught by the cops with some white powder on his nose and it is not from a doughnut. The film's best sequence to me though was the Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper one. Great scene, I love how Hopper's character basically realizes what is going to happen to him so he does his best to insult Walken's character as a parting shot. Just wish both of them were in the movie a bit more, especially Walken who disappears from the film after this scene. I could have done without the Elvis ghost scenes, but aside from that I have a rather positive image of this movie despite the fact it is not something I typically care for.
    10parkerbcn

    A truly cool 90s movie

    Sometimes there are classics that one missed, even when almost everyone at the time watched them. This is one of them for me. How I didn't see this movie in the cinemas in the early 90s when I was going to the movies every week is a mystery to me, even moreso that I never saw it on VHS or TV, when it's a very famous film with some big names on both sides of the camera. Fortunately, I could rectify this mistake watching it last week in its new 4K HDR restored version projected on a big screen, and oh, boy! What a movie this one is! The 90s were the decade most obsessed with coolness since the 30s and few films lived up to be really cool then and even less now, but this early script by Tarantino and Avary (the wonderful couple) with the stylist direction of the superb Tony Scott, the brilliant soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and an unbelievable cast that throws big names without stop, not only in the leads but in every little role (including a young and powerful James Gandolfini), is one of the coolest movies of the decade and a truly deserving classic.
    10thekissinggirls

    My Faveourite Film Ever.

    Have to give this 10/10 because it's still my Number one film now after having first seen it nearly twenty years ago. I love every second of it. From the dialogue to the stellar cast and everything in between. It just feels like my movie and I think it always will be.

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      In a 2011 interview with the American Film Institute, Gary Oldman was asked to name his favorite role. He chose two: Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991) and Drexl Spivey in this movie.
    • Goofs
      In the final scene, Clarence and Alabama are seen driving on a seaside highway towards Mexico, passing a sign that reads "Mexican Border, 5 Miles". There is no coastal route connecting the United States and Mexico. The nearest entry point into Mexico is on Interstate 5 at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which is about 5-6 miles inland from the coast.

      Mis-read sign. It said: Exit to Mexico 5 miles.
    • Quotes

      Clifford Worley: You're Sicilian, huh?

      Coccotti: Yeah, Sicilian.

      Clifford Worley: Ya know, I read a lot. Especially about things... about history. I find that shit fascinating. Here's a fact I don't know whether you know or not. Sicilians were spawned by niggers.

      Coccotti: [He does a double take] Come again?

      Clifford Worley: It's a fact. Yeah. You see, uh, Sicilians have, uh, black blood pumpin' through their hearts. Hey, no, if eh, if eh, if you don't believe me, uh, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, uh, you see, uh, the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are niggers.

      Coccotti: Yes...

      Clifford Worley: So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but, uh, well, then the Moors moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that nigger gene. Now this...

      [Coccotti busts out laughing]

      Clifford Worley: No, I'm, no, I'm quoting... history. It's written. It's a fact, it's written.

      Coccotti: [laughing] I love this guy.

      Clifford Worley: Your ancestors are niggers. Uh-huh.

      [Starts laughing, too]

      Clifford Worley: Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.

      [All laugh]

    • Crazy credits
      Film title logo at the end of the end credits.
    • Alternate versions
      The US version also misses a few shots from the conversation between Drexl (Gary Oldman) and the cocaine buyers (the part where he puts the shotgun between his legs and strokes it).
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: True Romance/The Ballad of Little Jo/Kalifornia/The Joy Luck Club/The Real McCoy (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Graceland
      Performed by Charlie Sexton

      Courtesy of MCA Records

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    • Release date
      • September 10, 1993 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • France
    • Official site
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • La Fuga
    • Filming locations
      • Safari Inn - 1911 W. Olive Avenue, Burbank, California, USA(the hotel that Clarence Worley and is wife Alabama check in to and share the information about the cocaine with Dick Ritchie)
    • Production companies
      • Morgan Creek Entertainment
      • Davis Films
      • August Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $13,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $12,281,551
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,023,420
      • Sep 12, 1993
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,094,586
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 59m(119 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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