True Romance

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The first sceenplay Quentin Tarantino ever wrote, True Romance is in many ways his most personal film to date, reflecting as it does the days he spent working behind the counter at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California. True Romance's hero, Clarence, played by Christian Slater in the film, works in a comic book shop and absconds with a suitcase full of drugs and his girlfriend Alabama, pursued cross-country from Detroit to LA by a bunch of mobsters out to retrieve their stolen goods. Containing all the Tarantino trademarks like bravura conversational crossfire and the audacious narrative structure, True Romance resonates throughout with intimations of what was to come (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) and clearly demonstrates why Tarantino is one of the most dynamic voices working in cinema today.