Love and a .45

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Love and a .45

R,

1994,

1h 41m,

Action

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Small-time criminal Watty Watts (Gil Bellows) attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black (Rory Cochrane). The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene (Renée Zellweger). Heading toward Mexico, the fugitive couple gets plenty of media coverage, until there are even more people on their trail. Can Watty and Starlene make it south of the border without getting caught?

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David Nusair

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Oct 16, 2023

1/4

Filmmaker Talkington, armed with his own screenplay, has infused Love and a .45 with a relentlessly (and gratingly) off-kilter sensibility that remains a distraction from beginning to end...

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Emanuel Levy

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Aug 4, 2005

3/5

Caffeinated Clint

Film Threat

May 6, 2005

3/5

quite a BANG!

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Mark Palermo

The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Jun 17, 2003

2/5

Brian Mckay

eFilmCritic.com

Mar 25, 2003

4/5

Captures that Texas Rockabilly Highway Outlaw spirit . . . a bit silly and lags in places, but [it] puts the fun back into antisocial and homicidal behavior

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Oct 8, 2002

3/5

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Feb 26, 2019

Great 90's movie. Do yourself a favor, get some beers and have a double bill with this film and True Romance. I was really in love with Renee Zellweger and Patricia Arquette as a young man but now i realize i love hot white trash girls!

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Jun 19, 2018

Love and a .45 may not be the best movie in my collection but it's near the top. Excellent writing and plot coupled with dark humor and blended with one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. Gil Bellows and Rene Zellweger are one of the hottest outlaw couples you'll ever see. Offbeat and original, Love and a .45 has been one of my favorite movies for a few decades. Disturbing, funny and a bit greasy. Quite possibly one of the best opening scenes ever. I was captivated within the first thirty seconds on first viewing. Notice the fake looking backgrounds during driving scenes, deliberately done to display Starlene's fantasy of being in the movies. The director's commentary is worth watching the second time around. I still can't believe this writer/director wasn't launched to instant fame after this movie. Brilliant directing, acting, writing and editing. This one is gritty and trippy. They don't make movies like this anymore. "I'm going on a green light daddy-o" **Adult situations and drug use (but in a good example of why you shouldn't do drugs kind of way). Brief nudity. Not for children. ****The movie info listed on this site is incorrect. Watty never shoots Billy, he sticks a fork in his neck.

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C.M. Talkington

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Synopsis

Small-time criminal Watty Watts (Gil Bellows) attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black (Rory Cochrane). The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene (Renée Zellweger). Heading toward Mexico, the fugitive couple gets plenty of media coverage, until there are even more people on their trail. Can Watty and Starlene make it south of the border without getting caught?

Director: C.M. Talkington
Producer: Darin Scott
Screenwriter: C.M. Talkington
Distributor: Trimark Pictures, Vidmark Entertainment
Production Co: Trimark Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 23, 1994, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 2, 2014
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo, Dolby SR

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