Love and a .45

11/23/19941h 41m

Theatrical Release (US)

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

Overview:

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?

Director:

C.M. Talkington

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

Cast

Gil Bellows

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Watty Watts

Renée Zellweger

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Starlene Cheatham

Rory Cochrane

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Billy Mack Black

Jeffrey Combs

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Dinosaur Bob

Jace Alexander

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Creepy Cody

Peter Fonda

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Vergil Cheatham

Ann Wedgeworth

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Thaylene Cheatham

Jack Nance

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Justice Thurman

Charlotte Ross

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Mary Ann

Michael Bowen

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Ranger X

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Reviews (1)

Wuchak
Written 6 year(s) ago
4
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-