True Romance
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. But those viewers are the ones who would never go to see a film starring Christian Slater in the first place, and who have no taste for the malevolently funny bad-boy posturing that is the very essence of TRUE ROMANCE. As befits the B-movie traditions from which they come, Clarence and Alabama fall instantly in love and hit the road. “Don’t wait for the dust to settle,” says a billboard outside Clarence’s window, and in this film no one ever does. Thanks to a mix-up involving a suitcase full of cocaine, the two lovers are also outlaws. Each of the minor performers here is treated as a guest star, and allowed to make the most of his character’s little idiosyncrasies. (Janet Maslin)
With BAD GIRL – MADONNA
- Christian Slater - Clarence Worley
- Patricia Arquette - Alabama Whitman
- Val Kilmer - Mentor
- Gary Oldman - Draxl Spivey
- Brad Pitt - Floyd
- Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley
- Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti
- Quentin Tarantino
- Jeffrey L. Kimball
- Michael Tronick
- Christian Wagner
- Hans Zimmer
- Benjamín Fernández
- Susan Becker