Love and a .45

  • Crime
  • Thriller
11/23/1994
101
R

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?

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      • Wuchak

        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 Starkweathers 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 realisti...

        December 3, 2019

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