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7.5Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Cast
- Christian Slater as Clarence Worley
- Patricia Arquette as Alabama Whitman
- Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley
- Val Kilmer as Mentor
- Gary Oldman as Drexl Spivey
- Brad Pitt as Floyd (Dick's Roommate)
Themes
- hotel
- parent child relationship
- movie business
- detective
- mexican standoff
- pimp
- cocaine
- ex-cop
- love
- murder
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
259,434 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Tony Scott
- Written by
- Quentin Tarantino
- Produced by
- Samuel Hadida Steve Perry Bill Unger
- Starring
- Christian Slater Patricia Arquette Dennis Hopper Val Kilmer Gary Oldman Brad Pitt Christopher Walken
- Cinematography
- Jeffrey L. Kimball
- Edited by
- Michael Tronick Christian Wagner
- Music by
- Hans Zimmer
- Production companies
- Morgan Creek Productions Davis Films
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. (United States, Canada and United Kingdom) August Entertainment (international)
- Release date
- September 10, 1993 ( 1993-09-10 )
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $12.5 million
- Box office
- $12.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 120
- FilmAffinity ID
- 264296
- Image
- True Romance Schriftzug.png
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- publication date
- 1993-00-00
- title
- True Romance
- capital cost
- 12500000
- Commons gallery
- True Romance
- review score
- 7.9/10
- Commons category
- True Romance
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True Romance is a 1993 American romantic crime drama film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, with Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken in supporting roles. Slater and Arquette portray newlyweds who head to California with a stolen suitcase of drugs, with the Mafia 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, Reservoir Dogs (1992). It is regarded by proponents as a cross-section of writer Tarantino and director Scott's respective trademarks, including a Southern California setting, pop cultural references, and stylized violence punctuated by slow motion.