True Romance
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| Directed by | Tony Scott |
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Gary Barber Samuel Hadida James G. Robinson Bill Unger |
| Written by | Quentin Tarantino |
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| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
| Edited by |
Michael Tronick Christian Wagner |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13 million |
| Box office | $12.3 million (North America) |
True Romance is a 1993 American crime film with elements of black comedy and romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with a supporting cast featuring Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken.
Empire ranked True Romance the 157th greatest film of all time in 2008.
At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley. The later have sex at Clarence's apartment in downtown Detroit. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a call girl hired by Clarence's boss as a birthday present, but has fallen in love with Clarence. They marry.
An apparition of Elvis appears to Clarence and convinces him to kill Alabama's pimp Drexl. Clarence goes to the brothel where Alabama worked, shoots and kills Drexl, and takes a bag he assumes contains Alabama's belongings. Back at the apartment, he and Alabama discover the bag contains a large amount of cocaine.
The couple visit Clarence's estranged father, Clifford, a former cop and now a security guard, for help. Clifford tells Clarence that the police assume Drexl's murder is a gang killing. After the couple leave for Los Angeles, Clifford is interrogated by Don Vincenzo Coccotti, consigliere to a mobster named "Blue Lou Boyle", who wants the drugs. Clifford, realizing he will die anyway, mockingly defies Coccotti. Infuriated, Cocotti shoots Clifford dead. A note on the refrigerator leads the mobsters to Clarence's L.A. address.
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