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About True Romance (1993)

Tony Scott's True Romance (1993) was written by Quentin Tarantino as one of his earliest screenplays, and its DNA runs through everything from its pop culture-obsessed dialogue to its non-linear structure—though Scott chose to tell the story chronologically rather than using Tarantino's shuffled timeline. The film assembles one of the most remarkable ensemble casts in 1990s cinema: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Val Kilmer, and James Gandolfini all appear, with the Hopper-Walken confrontation scene—the "Sicilian" monologue—considered one of the greatest dialogue scenes ever filmed. Tarantino sold the screenplay for just $50,000 when he desperately needed money to fund Reservoir Dogs, and Scott's glossy visual style gives Tarantino's gritty story an almost fairy-tale sheen. The film underperformed commercially but has been championed by filmmakers and audiences as one of the definitive films of the 1990s.