True Romance (1993)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman
Synopsis:
A Detroit drop-out marries a hooker, absconds with her pimp's stash of cocaine and together they head of Hollywood to sell it and live the life of Riley. The only snag is that the Mob are also after the drugs.
Review:
With a plot so insubstantial it might have been written on the back of a postcard, Tarantino's script nonetheless packs in enough pop culture references, violent action and other mannerisms of its author to seem all fresh and edgy back in 1993. It also boasts a scene between Hopper and Walken that has since passed into legend, but can also now be seen to be representative of his preoccupations, namely the seemliness or not of the 'n' word.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman
Synopsis:
A Detroit drop-out marries a hooker, absconds with her pimp's stash of cocaine and together they head of Hollywood to sell it and live the life of Riley. The only snag is that the Mob are also after the drugs.
Review:
With a plot so insubstantial it might have been written on the back of a postcard, Tarantino's script nonetheless packs in enough pop culture references, violent action and other mannerisms of its author to seem all fresh and edgy back in 1993. It also boasts a scene between Hopper and Walken that has since passed into legend, but can also now be seen to be representative of his preoccupations, namely the seemliness or not of the 'n' word.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman
Synopsis:
A Detroit drop-out marries a hooker, absconds with her pimp's stash of cocaine and together they head of Hollywood to sell it and live the life of Riley. The only snag is that the Mob are also after the drugs.
Review:
With a plot so insubstantial it might have been written on the back of a postcard, Tarantino's script nonetheless packs in enough pop culture references, violent action and other mannerisms of its author to seem all fresh and edgy back in 1993. It also boasts a scene between Hopper and Walken that has since passed into legend, but can also now be seen to be representative of his preoccupations, namely the seemliness or not of the 'n' word.