''True Romance'' is a 1993 American romantic

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directed by

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and written by

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. It features an

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led by

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and

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, with

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, and

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in supporting roles. Slater and Arquette portray newlyweds who head to California with a stolen suitcase of drugs, with the

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in close pursuit and their future very uncertain. ''True Romance'' began life as an early script by Tarantino; he sold the screenplay in order to finance his debut feature film, ''

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'' (1992). It is regarded by proponents as a cross-section of writer Tarantino and director Scott's respective trademarks, including a

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setting, pop cultural references, and stylized violence punctuated by

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. Though initially a

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, the film's positive reviews, with critics praising the dialogue, characters, and offbeat style, helped it earn a

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. It has come to be considered one of Scott's best films and one of the best American films of the 1990s.

Plot

At a Detroit theater showing

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s, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with

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fanatic Clarence Worley. They later have sex at his

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apartment. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a

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hired by Clarence's boss as a birthday present but has fallen in love with him. The two get married the next day at City Hall. An apparition of Elvis visits Clarence and convinces him to kill Alabama's abusive

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, Drexl Spivey. Going to the brothel where Alabama worked, he shoots and kills Drexl and takes a bag he assumes contains Alabama's belongings. Back at the apartment, he and Alabama discover it contains a large amount of cocaine that Drexl had stolen from two drug pushers that he'd murdered. The couple visits Clarence's estranged father Clifford, a retired police officer, for help. He tells Clarence the police assume Drexl's murder is a gang killing committed in revenge for the slain dealers. After the couple leave for Los Angeles, Clifford is interrogated by Vincenzo Coccotti, ''

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'' to mobster "Blue Lou Boyle", who had hired Drexl to steal and distribute the cocaine on his behalf. He reveals that the mob knows about Clarence's theft since they found his driver's license near Drexl's body. Clifford, realizing he will die anyway, mockingly defies Coccotti, who shoots him dead. One of his men then finds a Los Angeles address taped to Clifford's refrigerator. In Los Angeles, Clarence and Alabama meet Clarence's aspiring actor friend, Dick Ritchie, who introduces him to actor and production assistant Elliot Blitzer. He reluctantly agrees to broker the sale of the drugs to his boss, film producer Lee Donowitz. While Clarence is out buying lunch, Coccotti's enforcer Virgil finds Alabama in their motel room and beats her for information. Alabama fights back, stabbing him with a corkscrew, putting nail polish remover in his eyes and using hairspray to set fire to Virgil's face before grabbing his sawed-off shotgun and shooting him to death in a maniacal rage. Clarence tends to Alabama's wounds, and they discuss their future together. Elliot is pulled over for speeding and gets charged when the prostitute he's with hits him with a bag of cocaine and spills it on him. To stay out of jail, he agrees to wear a wire and record the drug deal between Clarence and Donowitz for police detectives Dimes and Nicholson. Coccotti's men also learn about where the deal will take place from Dick's stoner roommate Floyd. Clarence, Alabama, Dick, and Elliot go to Donowitz's suite at the Ambassador Hotel with the drugs. In the elevator, a suspicious Clarence threatens Elliot at gunpoint but is persuaded by Elliot's pleading for mercy. Clarence fabricates a story for Donowitz that the drugs were given to him by a corrupt police officer, and he agrees to the sale. Excusing himself to the bathroom, the vision of Elvis reassures Clarence that things are going well; meanwhile, Donowitz and his bodyguards are ambushed by the police and the mobsters. Elliot reveals himself to be an informant by asking the officers if he could leave, whereupon a shootout erupts. Dick throws the suitcase of drugs into the air, where it gets shredded by gunfire, and flees. Donowitz, his bodyguards, Elliot, the officers, and the mobsters are all killed, and Clarence is wounded as he exits the bathroom. He and Alabama escape with Donowitz's money as more police arrive. They flee to Mexico, where Alabama gives birth to a son, whom they name Elvis.

Cast

Additionally, Arquette's son Enzo Rossi plays Elvis in the final scene of the film.

Production

The title and plot are a play on the titles of romance comic books such as ''True Life Secrets'', ''True Stories of Romance'', ''Romance Tales'', ''Untamed Love'' and ''Strange Love''. The film was a breakthrough for Quentin Tarantino. Released after ''

'', it was his first screenplay for a major motion picture. He had hoped to direct the film, but lost interest in directing and sold the script. According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out. Apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay. He initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending (which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying "I just fell in love with these two characters and didn't want to see them die"). When seeing the completed film, he realized Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as Scott directed it. The film's first act, as well as some fragments of dialogue, were repurposed from Tarantino's 1987 amateur film '' My Best Friend's Birthday''. The film's score by

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is a theme based on

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from

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's ''

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''. This theme, combined with a voiceover spoken by Arquette, is an homage to

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's 1973 crime film ''

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'', in which

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speaks the voiceover, and that also shares similar dramatic motifs. The movie was cut by the United States

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for an R rating for its wide theatrical release. The majority of the confrontation between Alabama and Virgil was cut, as well as the ending shootout scene. There was also an alternative edit where Detective Nicky Dimes is shot not by Alabama, but by Toothpick Vic, one of the mafia hitmen. This edit was the official 1993 rental VHS release, but subsequently all DVD and most Blu-ray releases are of the original unrated director's cut. The 2022 4K release from Arrow, however, has both cuts of the film.

Reception

Box office

Although a critical success, ''True Romance'' was a box office failure. The film earned $4 million during its opening weekend, ranking in third place behind '' The Fugitive'' and ''

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''. It was given a domestic release and earned $12.3 million on a $12.5 million budget. Despite this, the film developed a

over the years.

Critical response

On the

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website

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, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "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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, which uses a

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, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale. Phil Villarreal of the ''

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'' called it "one of the most dynamic action films of the 1990s".

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of ''

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'' gave it three stars, saying "it's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates ''True Romance''. This movie is dynamite."

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gave the film a positive review remarking that "the energy and style of the movie are exhilarating", and that "the supporting cast is superb, a roll call of actors at home in these violent waters:

, and

, for example". A negative review by ''

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''s Richard Harrington claimed the film was "stylistically visceral" yet "aesthetically corrupt".

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of ''

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'' wrote, "''True Romance'', a vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie directed by Tony Scott and dominated by the machismo of Quentin Tarantino (who wrote this screenplay before he directed ''Reservoir Dogs''), is sure to offend a good-sized segment of the moviegoing population".

Legacy

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'' ranked ''True Romance'' the 83rd greatest film of all time in 2017, writing: "Tony Scott's handling of Quentin Tarantino's script came off like the cinematic equivalent of cocaine-flavoured bubble-gum: a bright, flavoursome confection that had an intoxicatingly violent kick. It also drew some tremendous big names to its supporting cast." The Hopper/Walken scene, colloquially named "The Sicilian scene", was praised by Oliver Lyttelton of '' IndieWire'', who called it "one of the most beautiful tête-à-têtes in contemporary cinema, wonderfully written and made utterly iconic by the two

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actors". Tarantino himself has named it as one of his proudest moments. "I had heard that whole speech about the Sicilians a long time ago, from a black guy living in my house. One day I was talking with a friend who was Sicilian and I just started telling that speech. And I thought: 'Wow, that is a great scene, I gotta remember that'." Oldman's villain also garnered acclaim. MSN Movies wrote: "With just a few minutes of screen time, Gary Oldman crafts one of cinema's most memorable villains: the brutal, dreadlocked pimp Drexl Spivey. Even in a movie jammed with memorable cameos from screen luminaries ..Oldman's scar-faced, dead-eyed, lethal gangster stood out." Jason Serafino of ''

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'' magazine named Spivey as one of the top five coolest drug dealers in movie history, writing: "He's not in the film for a long time, but the few scant moments that Gary Oldman plays the psychopathic dealer Drexl Spivey make ''True Romance'' a classic ... Oldman gave us a glimpse at one of cinema's most unfiltered sociopaths." ''

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'' journalist Thomas Freeman ranked Spivey as the greatest performance of Oldman's career. "

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", a song by the English indie rock band

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from their 2013 debut album, was inspired by the film. Vocalist Matthew Healy explained: "I got really obsessed with the idea behind Patricia Arquette's character in ''True Romance'' when I was about eighteen. That craving for the bad boy in that film sso sexualized." ''

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'', the 2013 debut album from English pop star

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, was named after the film. Brad Pitt's stoner character in ''True Romance'', Floyd, was the inspiration for making the film '' Pineapple Express'', according to producer

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, who "thought it would be funny to make a movie in which you follow that character out of his apartment and watch him get chased by bad guys". James Gandolfini landed his role of

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on ''

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'' when he was invited to audition for the role after casting director Susan Fitzgerald saw a short clip of his performance in ''True Romance''. Gandolfini ultimately received the role ahead of several other actors, including

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and

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. In the trance song "Solarcoaster" by

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, a sample is used from the film. The sample includes the line spoken by Alabama, "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."

Soundtrack

Home media

''True Romance'' was originally released by

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on September 12, 1994. This release contains only the director's cut, however the theatrical cut was released on an R rated rental VHS. The

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was released on September 24, 2002, as a two-disc set. It was later released on

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on May 26, 2009. Again, these releases only contain the director's cut, and the theatrical cut remained excluded. The 4K UHD Blu-ray was released on June 28, 2022, by

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. Unlike the previous DVD and Blu-ray releases, this release contains the theatrical cut for the first time since the original VHS release, it also includes the director's cut from past DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Notes

References

External links

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