He spends his birthday alone every year at the cinema watching kung fu movies & this year is no exception except for a surprise his boss has planned for him. When he settles into his seat a girl(Alabama / Patricia Arquette) accidentally spills popcorn on him as a way to introduce herself. They watch the movie together & it turns into a date,they hit it off immediately & the evening ends with her staying over at his place.

Clarence gets to Drexls 'club' and tells him he is taking Alabama away, naturally Drexel isn't happy about this and a fight ensues. Clarence is beaten to a pulp but at the last minute manages to shoot Drexl(Gary Oldman) and his henchman Marty. After the noise & violence the girls in the club pass Clarence the first suitcase that comes to hand, rushing to get him out of the way as soon as possible.

Clarence visits his father(Dennis hopper) for help, using his police contacts he finds out that the police have no idea who killed Drexl so they head off to Hollywood hoping to use Clarence's friend Richies contacts in the film business to sell the drugs.

Once they get to Hollywood they struggle to find someone to buy the coke as Dick isn't as connected as Clarence thought he would be. They give a sample to one of his friends, Elliot Blitzer(Bronson Pinchot) from acting class so he can pass it on to a director friend, Lee Dimwits(Saul Rubinek), but unfortunately he gets busted the next day.

The cast - How many stars! Slater gives his usual cheeky Jack Nicholsonesque performance & fits the role perfectly (thank god it wasn't Nicolas cage!) Arquette works her way through a range of emotions and develops into a true gangsters moll by the end of the film, showing guts and determination sticking by her 'true love'. She has some great 'white trash' outfits to wear during the film which look great paired with Slater's wannebe Elvis look.

Rappaport(dick ritchie), really bugs me but the script needed him as a bumbling try hard actor & with his inability to connect them with a buyer.

Gary Oldman -what can I say! Love him, he play psycho's so well & Drexl, the dreadlocked pimp who thinks he is black is no exception. Make up completely transformed him into an evil looking monster and he certainly played up to the part. When he first meets Clarence & Clarence ignores his surroundings,spending all his time 'clocking' Drexl he says - "Now I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties." . This is one man I wouldnt want to meet in a dark alley.

Nicholson (Tom Sizemore), one of the cops interrogating Elliot when they have just caught him with the coke - "you're no longer an extra or a supporting actor, you're a fucking star. You are a fucking star. And you are going to be playing your one-man show for the next two fucking years for a captive audience." Elliot falls to pieces at this and starts crying that he doesn't want to go to prison, soon after he agrees to wear a wire to the drug deal.

Elliot is with the cops before the deal & test that the wire is working correctly -"hi, Im Elliot, Im with the boy scouts of America and were selling uncut cocaine so that we can go to the jamboree"

The deleted scenes are really worth watching as they fill in a couple of , well, not plot holes but gaps in the script and it makes some of the characters make a bit more sense.For example, early in the film Drexl steals the coke from a crack house and kills everyone there, the dialogue in the scene doesn't make a great deal of sense unless you watch the longer version.

As for Tony Scott, I have only seen 2 of his films before, The fan with Deniro & Beverly hills cop 2. True romance didn't feel to me as if it was in the same style of either of these films, rather a balance of the 2. BHC2 is lighthearted & easy going & the fan is much darker and brooding. The mixture of these 2 without slipping over to comedy action film is what i feel you get with True Romance

Extras
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commentary by Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.
commentary by director Tony Scott.
commentary by writer Quentin Tarantino.
storyboard track allows you to access the director's storyboards while watching the film.
Web-enabled screenplay viewer with storyboards, original production notes and web links.
30 minutes of deleted scenes with optional director commentary.
Alternative ending.
Selective commentaries with Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt and Michael Rapaport.
behind-the-scenes featurette.
Animated photo gallery.
Theatrical trailer.

"(Love Is) A Tender Trap" by Robert Palmer
when Elliot gets caught speeding and the traffic cop finds a huge baggie of uncut coke on him