True Romance (1993)
True Romance is a romantic crime drama by Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino that follows two lovers, a kindly nerdy man and a prostitute, who decide to elope after a series of events. When a murder and an accidental theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine from a mafia occur leading up to their engagement, the couple goes on the run, realizing no amount of talking will fix their mistake.
True Romance
- Director
- Tony Scott
- Release Date
- September 10, 1993
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Christopher Walken , Dennis Hopper , Brad Pitt , Christian Slater , Gary Oldman , Val Kilmer , Samuel L. Jackson , Patricia Arquette
- Writers
- Quentin Tarantino
- Runtime
- 119 minutes
- Budget
- $13 million
Summary
In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the Mob, track them down in an attempt to reclaim it.
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