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Love and a .45

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5.7/10 • 66

1994-11-231h 41m

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This is one jagged twisting ride you'll never forget.

Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. 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?

Directors
C.M. Talkington
Writters
C.M. Talkington
Editors
C.M. Talkington, Bob Ducsay

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  1. Gil Bellows

    Gil Bellows

    Watty Watts

  2. Renée Zellweger

    Renée Zellweger

    Starlene Cheatham

  3. Rory Cochrane

    Rory Cochrane

    Billy Mack Black

  4. Jeffrey Combs

    Jeffrey Combs

    Dinosaur Bob

  5. Jace Alexander

    Jace Alexander

    Creepy Cody

  6. Peter Fonda

    Peter Fonda

    Vergil Cheatham

  7. Ann Wedgeworth

    Ann Wedgeworth

    Thaylene Cheatham

  8. Jack Nance

    Jack Nance

    Justice Thurman

  9. Charlotte Ross

    Charlotte Ross

    Mary Ann

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Wuchak

Dec 3, 2019

4/10

Quirky white trash crime spree satire tries too hard A young no-class couple from central Texas (Gil Bellows & Renee Zellweger) flee from loan sharks and a maniac ex-partner (Rory Cochrane), seeking a shotgun wedding and to escape to Mexico. "Love and a .45" (1994) is a satirical black comedy crime flick inspired by the Charles Starkweather killing spree of January, 1958, who was accompanied by his 14 year-old girlfriend. Similar films were inspired by the same real-life episode: “Badlands” (1973), “Kalifornia” (1993) and “Natural Born Killers” (1994). Seventeen months after Starkweather’s spree he was wiped off the face of the earth via electric chair. Needless to say, we were wiser then. While “Badlands” and “Kalifornia” were realistic, “Love and a .45” takes the satirical route à la “Natural Born Killers,” but it tries too hard to be an oddball cult flick about dirtbags, not to mention it’s shallow. By contrast, the contemporaneous “Pulp Fiction” didn’t have to try hard; it just was (the real deal; and not shallow at all). But there are enough highlights in “Love and a .45” if you don’t mind movies about white trash crazies: Zellweger never looked better, not even in “Empire Records” (1995); Cochrane gives it his all; and Bellows works as a likable anti-hero. The film runs 1 hour, 42 minutes, and was shot in the heart of Texas (Bastrop & Austin). GRADE: C/C-

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English
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