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True Romance (1993) - Two Disc Special Edition Unrated Director's Cut


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Five out of Five

Movie

Rating: UR
Length: 121 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: DTS 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1

Captions

English, French, Spanish

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Plot

As the title implies, this is a love story brought to you only as Quentin Tarantino can (he wrote the screenplay but did not direct; he sold it and used the money to do Reservoir Dogs). A young man (Slater) meets and falls in love with a call girl from Florida (Arquette). They get married after one day, steal drugs from her pimp and then head to Hollywood to sell them. Of course the drug dealers aren't happy about this and eventually the cops get involved and all the fun comes to a head.

Pros

I could write a thousand words describing all the great things about this film but I promised on the home page I would keep things short and sweet; so here it is.
  • This is one of the most original stories put to film.
  • Every actor was cleverly cast and played their roles to perfection. Much of the acting was over-the-top which just added to the fun. Major kudos has to go out to Slater, Arquette (in all her absolute loveliness), Oldman, Hopper, Walken, Kilmer, Pinchot, Gandolfini and Pitt.
  • This is a romance story that every guy will love and some, if not most, women can appreciate (or at the very least, sit through).

Cons

If you're easily offended by the F word (it is used throughout) or dislike violence and overall crudeness, this film is definitely not for you.

Extras

  • 3 Separate Feature-Length Audio Commentaries by Stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, Director Tony Scott and Writer Quentin Tarentino
  • Feature-Length Storyboard Track
  • Deleted and Extended Scenes with Optional Director Commentary
  • Alternate Ending with Optional Director and Writer Commentaries
  • Selective Commentaries with Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt and Michael Rapaport
  • Interactive Behind the Scenes Featurette
  • Animated Photo Gallery
  • Vintage 1993 Featurette
  • Cast and Crew Film Highlights
  • Theatrical Trailer and TV Spots

Recommendation

If you like Tarantino's work you'll have to own this. If the only thing you dislike about his work are that his stories are not told in a linear fashion, this is not one of those. This is one of my all-time favorite movies but it definitely isn't for everyone. Needless to say, not only keep your children out of the room but also out of hearing distance.

Director

Tony Scott   [Crimson Tide, Domino, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, Spy Game, Top Gun]

Actors

Frank Adonis - Frankie
[Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Wall Street]
Victor Argo - Lenny
[King of New York, Taxi Driver]
Patricia Arquette - Alabama Whitman
[A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Ed Wood, Stigmata]
James Gandolfini - Virgil
[Crimson Tide, Get Shorty, The Last Castle]
Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley
[Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Hell Ride, Hoosiers, Land of the Dead, Speed, Waterworld]
Samuel L. Jackson - Big Don
[Basic, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Jackie Brown, Jurassic Park, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars Episodes I/II/II, S.W.A.T., Snakes on a Plane, Sphere, Unbreakable, xXx, xXx: State of the Union]
Val Kilmer - Elvis, Mentor
[Alexander, Batman Forever, The Ghost and the Darkness, Heat, Mindhunters, The Missing, Red Planet, The Saint, Tombstone, Top Gun, Top Secret!]
Gary Oldman - Drexl Spivey
[Batman Begins, Bram Stroker's Dracula, The Dark Knight, The Fifth Element, Hannibal, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JFK, Léon, Lost in Space]
Chris Penn - Nicky Dimes
[After the Sunset, Footloose, Mulholland Falls, Pale Rider, Reservoir Dogs]
Bronson Pinchot - Elliot Blitzer
[Beverly Hills Cop, The Langoliers]
Brad Pitt - Floyd
[Fight Club, Mr & Mrs Smith, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Se7en, Sleepers, Snatch, Spy Game, Troy, Twelve Monkeys]
Michael Rapaport - Dick Ritchie
[Cop Land, Deep Blue Sea, Men of Honor]
Saul Rubinek - Lee Donowitz
[Unforgiven]
Tom Sizemore - Cody Nicholson
[Black Hawk Down, Dreamcatcher, Furnace, Heat, Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor, Red Planet, Saving Private Ryan]
Christian Slater - Clarence Worley
[3000 Miles to Graceland, Alone in the Dark, Broken Arrow, Heathers, Interview with the Vampire, Mindhunters, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Windtalkers]
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti
[A View to a Kill, Batman Returns, The Deer Hunter, King of New York, Man on Fire, Pulp Fiction, The Rundown, Sleepy Hollow, Suicide Kings]

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