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Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2004)

At the height of Tarantino's fame, everyone wanted a piece, so this was made, adapted from a script of his. Featuring one of the best casts ever, with old and new stars coming together in a pulp world to tell a modern story of love, True Romance is one of the best cult movies of the nineties. Slater plays a loner, a young'un with a love for comics and old kung-fu movies who meets, and sleeps with a beautiful young woman one stormy night. He learns that she came to him as part of a set-up, (his boss thought he needed to get laid) but they soon fall in love and get married. After a run in with her pimp, they find themselves with a case of coke, and on the run, and so begins a series of superb cameos, and great set pieces all filled with witty dialogue.
The soundtrack and acting are excellent, as is to be expected, and the dialogue is just as quotable as that of Pulp Fiction. Perhaps superior to PF in that we want the lead characters to succeed, as they are not just cool, but manage not to be scumbags. The alternative ending is good also, on the DVD. Definitely a movie for serious movie fans, or at least movies of this type.