http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108399/
Plot & Summary
This is the kind of movie that creates its own universe, and glories in it. The universe in question could best be located inside the in flamed fantasies of an adolescent male mind - and not any adolescent, but the kind of teenage boy who goes to martial arts movies and fantasizes about guns and girls with great big garbanzos. It is the kind of film that will make the best 10 lists of such supporters of the decline of civilization as Joe Bob Briggs. "True Romance," which feels at times like a fire sale down at the cliche factory, is made with energy, high spirits, an enchanting goofiness, and it's impossible to resist.
The movie's hero, Clarence, played by Christian Slater, is perhaps something like the target audience member for the movie. He works in a comic book store, spends his free time watching kung fu triple-features, and can hardly believe it when a blonde in a low-cut garbanzo-flaunter walks into his life. Her name is Alabama (uh, huh) and she's played by Patricia Arquette. I guess it goes without saying that she's a hooker; that's the only profession available to the women in a movie like this, and is sort of convenient, because it means she doesn't have any regular hours, no parents, and is available, at least for a price. Of course such hookers, in such movies, never charge the hero anything; Clarence exudes a magnetic appeal that transcends commerce, like Billy Idol over at Heidi's house.
"True Romance" was directed by Tony Scott, whose movies like "Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder" show an affection for boys and their toys. But the film's real author, his stamp on every line of every scene, is
Quentin Tarantino. As in "Reservoir Dogs," his 1992 directorial debut, Tarantino creates a world of tough guys, bravado, lurid melodrama, easy women, betrayal, guns and drugs.
Rating
7.9/10 72,193 votes
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