I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together," Arquette's Alabama Worley says in voiceover at the top of the movie — and goes on an adventure after winding up ...

Soon, he and Alabama depart Detroit for Los Angeles ... Tarantino’s original True Romance script serves as a trial run for Pulp Fiction. As with the later movie, his version of the story jumps ...

Being a Tony Scott production, True Romance obviously looks slick as hell. From the bleak, cold-looking opening scenes in Detroit to the warm, sunny streets of Los Angeles, it’s a handsome movie, and ...

True Romance benefits enormously from this glow, because it’s arguable that even (or especially) with some memory-searing moments, it’s more a series of grabby scenes than a coherent movie.