True Romance (DVD)

Clarence meets Alabama who has been a call girl for exactly four days, they marry the very next day and off goes Clarence to retrieve a suitcase containing Alabama's clothes in it from her pimp. The wrong suitcase is retrieved and instead of clothes the case is full of cocaine, which the couple then go onto try to make a quick sale of leading to a cat and mouse game between the newlyweds, the original owners of the coke, and of course the police. The main characters newlywed's Clarence and Alabama are played by Christian Slater (Alone in the Dark) and Patricia Arquette (Stigmata). Both do a superb job, with Patricia Arquette portraying the sexy yet loveable ex ...  Read the complete review

Outline ---------- Clarence Worley works in a comic shop, his life is turned upside down when he meets Alabama, falls in love and marries her on an impulse, accidentally steals her pimps cocaine and ends up on the run in Hollywood trying to sell it and escape to a better life. Plot in detail ----------------- Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) works in a comic shop in Detroit. He is a quiet guy, son of an alcoholic ex-cop, divorced parents, Elvis fanatic, he lives a simple life working to make ends meet & never getting into trouble. He spends his birthday alone every year at the cinema watching kung fu movies & this year ...  Read the complete review

True Romance is a 1993 film, directred by Tony Scott, written by Quentein Tarantino & starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater. As you'd expect from a Tarantino script, there's plenty of violence and gore. But there are also unecpectedly touching moments, wit and comdedy. Patricia Arquette plays a likeable blonde prostitute called Alabama, who falls in love with one of her clients - a comic book nerd, Clarence Worley. The arkward and movingly sincere couple are married overnight & run away to Hollywood together to start a new life - with a fortunes worth of Cocaine! Only things don't go quite as they planned, with the mafia hot in pursuit! At ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago i was buying dvds all over the show. This ended up in my collection, and to be honest i was not as much of a fan as i thought i would be. In this film Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette fall in love and fall into trouble when the police and mob over missing cocane. True Romance was written by Tarantio and it shows. Its very typical of him, where different things are going on all over the place, and it all comes into one big mess. It is well written, and there are some great actors in there including Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken. However when watching i never really found a character that i liked. Even Slater who ...  Read the complete review

"True Romance" is a 1993 movie directed by Tony Scott, and written by Quentin Tarrantino, and follows the story of Clarance and Alabama in their persuit of happiness. The movie opens with a prologue, set in a dark, smokey bar. With "Gracelands" playing from the jukebox, you are first introduced to Clarance Worley. In a fairly brilliant piece of scriptwriting, he is discussing the merits of Elvis Presley, in the hope of 'pulling' a blonde woman at the bar. His lines are quite comical, obviously inspired with a touch of alcohol, but also very heartfelt. Despite his best efforts, he ends up going to the cinema to see the Sonny Chiba movie ...  Read the complete review