Love_And_A_.45 (divx511-sickboy88).avi

Love and a .45 (1994) IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110395/ ---- It's a fucking shame that no one has heard of this movie...it simply kicks ass. Did you like "Pulp Fiction"? If so, then you'll like this as well. ---- Mini Plot: Does anyone else besides me enjoy seeing a big name movie star before they made it big? While this wasn't Renée Zellweger's first film role, it was certainly the first where she had a starring credit, and certainly a far cry from her more demure character in 1996's Jerry Mcguire. Love and a .45 (1994), written and directed by Texas native C.M. Talkington (his first writing and directing credit) stars, along with Ms. Zellweger, an early appearance by Gil Bellows (who appeared in a much more famous film the same year titled The Shawshank Redemption and then found a greater degree of fame on the hit FOX television show Ally McBeal), and the ever-entertaining Rory Cochrane, who was once involved with Zellweger, and would later appear with her in Empire Records (1995). Also appearing are Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator), Jace Alexander (Eight Men Out), Ann Wedgeworth (My Science Project), Michael Bowen (Night of the Comet), and Peter Fonda (Easy Rider). The movie, set in Texas, features Bellows and Zellweger as Watty Watts and Starlene Cheatham, respectively, as a young couple in love living together in modest, mobile surroundings (a trailer home) with their main source of income being Watty robbing convenience stores every once in awhile, when not studying or quoting philosophically from the I Ching. Life has been pretty good for the couple, but Starlene has been pushing for Watty to make an honest woman of her, which leads Watty to borrow a large sum of money from an unscrupulous source (loan shark), and now he must contend with two speed-addicted, gun totin' (does everyone in Texas carry a gun?) collection agents in Dinosaur Bob (Combs) and Creepy Cody (Alexander). Stealing from convenient stores, as you may have figured, while relatively easy, doesn't usually net a large haul, so when Watty's slimy prison buddy Billy Mack Black (Cochrane) comes by with a tip on a large score, Watty sees a chance to get out from under the loan shark's thumb. Things don't go as planned as a clerk gets killed (Billy Mack broke one of Watty's cardinal rules of never carrying a loaded gun, and he's also seriously addicted to crystal meth, a form of speed that makes one highly unpredictable apparently), Watty and Billy have a falling out (ending with Billy getting a fork stuck in an uncomfortable place). Watty, fearing legal entanglements (jail) decides to head for Mexico with his new bride Starlene, with Dinosaur Bob, Creepy Cody, and Billy Mack not far behind, two looking for the money owed, and the third looking for revenge. Oh yeah, Watty and Starlene are now also plastered all over the TV as a state wide hunt by Texas Law enforcement gears up (the clerk who got killed was related to someone high up within the law enforcement community). Yes, Mexico's looking pretty good for Watty and Starlene, what with three trigger-happy speed freaks and the state of Texas, where the popular form of capital punishment is the electric char, hot on their heels. I did enjoy this film a lot. I've noticed others have compared it to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (which came out the same year), and while there are certainly similarities, I believe Love and a .45 stands on its' own without, as another reviewer astutely stated, all the pretension or psychotropic cinematography of Stone's film. If anything, I would compare it more to David Lynch's Wild at Heart, which came out four years earlier. I think Talkington did a wonderful job in the writing and directing of his first film, much better than many others' first outings. Not only did he present fun, engaging, and interesting characters, but he also used the backdrop of Texas well, suggesting an intimate familiarity of a true native of the state (which he is). Zellweger is terminally cute, suitably trashy, and very dangerous (when Watty is threatened) as Starlene and Bellows' character of the deep thinking Watty brought forth a lesser image of Nicholas Cage's character of Sailor Ripley in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), a much better film finally seeing a DVD release December '04...check it out. Cochrane was entertaining as the psychotic Billy Mack, especially the scene when he's getting a rather large and obvious tattoo on his shaved head. My favorite character was that of Dinosaur Bob, played by Jeffery Combs. I'm a big fan of Combs, and I have to say, I didn't even recognize him here at first. His presence on the screen nearly ellipses the others in just about any scene he appears, as he get his character full on, chewing the heck out of the scenery. He's just a lot of fun to watch here, as he is in most of his film appearances. Fonda and Wedgeworth appear as Starlene's hippy parents, and play their roles well, but I never got the impression they were really stretching their abilities too much, playing characters stereotypical to the actors. Their characters lacked strength, but since they were supporting cast, I can't be too critical. I thought the choice of music was really appropriate and with artists like The Flaming Lips, Meat Puppets, Mazzy Star, Reverend Horton Heat, and Johnny Cash. One thing I feel I should mention is that there's a lot of violence and use of profanity in the film (but surprisingly little nekkidness, none by Zellweger, although she does don the short shorts, or Daisy Dukes, if you will, quite often...nothing like flirtatious, young white trash...), so if those kinds things turn you off, then you'd be wise to skip this movie. ---- Encoded by: sickboy88 Codec: DivX 5.1.1 Bitrate: 823 kb/s AVG Aspect: 640x336 = 1.90:1 Audio: English, 128 kb/s CBR Stereo @ 44100K Hz Subtitles: None Runtime: 01:41:37 FPS: 23.976

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dstrukkt (2005-07-26)

The only thing you need in life is love & A. 45
I tried to upload this movie before.
Thanks sickboy88 for doing it for me :)
Great movie!

 sickboy88 (2005-08-02)

Yeah, it's weird, the movies you think everyone will get like this one...people just don't download it...then some weird movie someone asks for...fucking 16 million people download it....

loctus1999 (2006-01-24)

Awesome dude

dst4096 (2006-04-14)

please seed!
I'm stuck at 92.9% and so are many others...
Thanks!

fred99 (2006-12-14)

plase seed stuck at 83,4 %

waverider007us (2007-01-03)

seed please
thanx

artyD (2007-02-04)

Are there swedish text somewhere out there for this one?

macadamia (2007-03-02)

Just signed up after I found this here...
First up, thx much to sickboy88. Your review is wonderful, my friend. You are absolutely right, this movie is just great. VERY underrated, and hardly anyone even knows about it. Compare this to one of Renee Zellwegger's other early films - Texas Chainsaw Massacre - and see the difference!
Cheers! I'll seed this as I do everything once complete - up to 150%.
Thanks!

foums666 (2007-03-20)

This movie is WAY underrated, and really a funny and bizarre movie.
I had it on VHS for a long time, now I hope I can get this as a replacement :D

screamerz (2007-04-29)

thanks!! been looking for this some time now. also had this on vhs. but lost tape somehow. thanks for this one sickboy!

justinuff79 (2008-01-28)

You are da man sickboy! I seen this movie on showtime like 7 years ago and I have been trying to find it ever since. They had one copy of it at my local video store and some greedy assclown decided to never take it back.
Awesome movie!!! Now I can show it to people instead of trying to describe it. Thanks for the upload bro!

meatfoam (2009-02-24)

This film is a Classic.
What happend to C.M. Talkington?

stuckey27 (2009-03-23)

I'm so glad I found this, thanks for the up. Rory Cochrane is fuckin' insane in this flik.

morskmees (2009-04-23)

Nice one sickboy88! this film is fantastic. i always tell hardcore tarantino fans to watch this to see where he stole most of his ideas for early films. so thankyou!

rodricks (2010-07-05)

"My right hand holds a cold Corona bottle,
my left hand holds a loaded .38,
I've got a young girl who's
anticipating romance,
but it's looking like she will have to wait."
--Rev. H.Heat
Truly a classic. If you like it check out Linklater's "Slacker". Both exude Austin TX culture from that era.
p.s. No actress was ever sexier than young Zellwegger as Starlene Cheatham.

PelotasUA (2011-04-24)

Awesome movie. I had no expectations going into it and I came out with a new favorite. Highly recommended!

caper454 (2012-06-21)

I saw this movie on PPV back in 1995 and fell in love with it. Extremely under-rated.

SilenceTheGypsy (2012-10-31)

SEEEEEEDDDDDDERRRRRSSS!!!! Fuckin PlEAZE! Been looking for this for ever....

medaiz (2013-03-01)

Super!!! Thank you so much!!

pitbull36 (2014-08-31)

I'm freakin psyched to find this flick on here. Ain't seen this in forever....