True Romance, directed by Tony Scott, is a hilarious, twisted road movie
about which Interview raved, A pop-crazy, instant B classic with A
clout. Alabama, a hooker, and Clarence, a comic-book store clerk, fall
in love and hit the road in a purple Cadillac. They are going to Los
Angeles to start a new life -- with a suitcase full of cocaine
accidentally stolen from Alabama's defunct ex-pimp. Guided by the spirit
of Elvis, Clarence attempts to sell the coke to a top Hollywood
director, putting the young lovers in the middle of a standoff between
the narcs and the Sicilian gangsters who rightfully own the cocaine.
This publication of Tarantino's first screenplay, written when he was
still a video-store clerk, contains the original ending and Tarantino's
answers first, questions later structure, both of which were altered by
Scott.