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True Romance

year 1993decade 90sdirector Tony Scottgenre Drama
host Bill Simmonshost Chris Ryanhost Sean Fennessey
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Most Rewatchable Scene · 26:50

The Sicilian scene between Hopper and Walken

Five candidate scenes are set out: Clarence going back to Drexel, Hopper versus Walken, which might be the most famous scene of both careers, Gandolfini versus Alabama, the coke sale at the Beverly Ambassador when Slater shows up wired and talks Vietnam movies and Coming Home in a Body Bag, and the big three-way shootout, Tarantino's second three-way shootout in two movies.

Bill Simmons: A recap for anyone who has not seen the film in a while: Clarence falls in love with the woman his boss hires for him and they get married.

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 1:22:06

"If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it"

Nominations: 'don't condescend me man', Drexel's crude line comparing himself to a woman's body, 'he must have thought it was white boy day', the gun line, 'she tastes like a peach'; the gun line is liked as a senior yearbook line for the high school students out there, and it is replayed with Clarence telling Richard that Lee Donowitz is not a pimp, credited to Clarence Worley, 1993.

The film

True Romance (1993)

Directed by Tony Scott · Drama

118 minutes

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Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Christian Slater Clarence Worley
Patricia Arquette Alabama Whitman
Dennis Hopper Clifford Worley
Val Kilmer Elvis
Gary Oldman Drexl Spivey
Brad Pitt Floyd, Dick's roommate
Christopher Walken Vincenzo Coccotti
Bronson Pinchot Elliot Blitzer
Samuel L. Jackson Don "Big Don"
Michael Rapaport Dick Ritchie
Saul Rubinek Lee Donowitz
Conchata Ferrell Mary Louise Ravencroft
Victor Argo Lenny
Paul Bates Marty
Chris Penn Detective Nicky Dimes
Tom Sizemore Detective Cody Nicholson
Gregory Sporleder burger stand customer
Frank Adonis Frankie
Michael Beach Detective Wurlitzer
Laurence Mason Floyd "D"
Ed Lauter Captain Quiggle (uncredited)

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