True Romance features EVERYONE. These are just the people I noticed.
Christian Slater
Patricia Arquette
Dennis Hopper
Tim Sizemore
Chrisopher Walken
Gary Oldman
Samuel L. Jackson
Chris Penn
James Gandolfini
Val Kilmer
Brad Pitt
and a guy who may or may not be Willem Dafoe.
I saw a bunch of "that guy"s, and I can remember what other movies I have seen them in, but because I cannot recall their name, they are not mentioned here.
Christian Slater plays plays Clarence Worley, a comic loving, kung fu watching, Elvis fanatic. He meets Alabama Whitman, played by Arquette in a triple feature of "Street Fighter" movies. They fall in love. Clarence finds out that she is a call girl, they get married, and he goes after her old pimp to tell him that she is no longer his call girl anymore. Drexl, played by Gary Oldman, is this bizarre character. Pimp, Drug dealer, and all around low life. Things go south, Clarence kills all of them, and accidently gets away with a lot of cocaine. The rest of the movie is spent following them around, trying to disappear, and sell this coke. The final scenes of the movie are a little lame, but whatever.
You can definitely tell that Quentin Tarantino wrote this movie. Clarence goes and sees a triple kung fu feature staring Sonny Chiba. Clarence is obsessed with Elvis. The movie is violent. On every television in the movie, I think a different kung fu/Hong Kong action movie is on. Once you see the climax of the film you cannot help but thing that this is a homage to John Woo films like "Hard Boiled". Hamburgers everywhere. It reeks of Tarantino.
All the characters are great. Gary Oldman is the best. I also love how Dennis Hopper plays the only "normal" person in the whole movie.
Overall, 4 out of 5 stars.
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