Love and a .45

Love and a .45 (1994)

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?

Date of release
1994-11-23
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (73)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
C.M. Talkington

Casting

Interesting facts

Love and a .45 is a 1994 American independent black comedy romantic-crime thriller film written and directed by C.M. Talkington, starring Gil Bellows and Renée Zellweger. It co-stars Rory Cochrane, Jeffrey Combs, Jace Alexander, Michael Bowen, Jack Nance, Ann Wedgeworth, Peter Fonda, and Wiley Wiggins.

Production

Zellweger explained that she found out about the project while Matthew McConaughey was being considered for the role, while filming Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4. According her McConaughey left the script aside, she picked it up, read it and fell in love with the character of Starlene. It led her to start crashing readings of the script and director Talkington hired her for the part.

Talkington explained that the company making the film was reluctant to hire her and said “I had to threaten to walk off the movie to get the company to cast Renee. So it was a big risk — I mean, they were like, ‘We’re not gonna cast her,’ and I’m like, ‘You’re gonna cast her or we’re walking off the movie.’ So we kind of won and they cast her."

Bellows who was cast as Watty said "I loved him from the moment I read the first page of the script, in spite of his profession, he is really a noble character. "I think he does know the difference between good and bad, right and wrong. By and large his justifications are those I would embrace in my own life - other than armed robbery."

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