Watch the 4K restora­tion trail­er for True Romance

Though the 1993 cult clas­sic True Romance may not have been direct­ed by Quentin Taran­ti­no – the Hol­ly­wood up-and-com­er took only a screen­play cred­it, with Tony Scott direct­ing – the ear­ly entry in his fil­mog­ra­phy still bears all his major trade­marks. Between the wild­ly attired char­ac­ters with mem­o­rable names like Clarence Wor­ley and Alaba­ma Whit­man, the drug mon­ey, the gang­sters in pur­suit, and the rev­er­ent homage to B‑movies past, it’s about as Taran­ti­no as they come.

The film bare­ly broke even dur­ing its the­atri­cal run, but went on to amass an under­ground legion of fans and attain the rep­u­ta­tion as a stand­out work of the ​’90s, a lega­cy that will now be fur­ther shored up with a hand­some new home-video treat­ment. Today, we’re delight­ed to share the trail­er for Arrow Video’s brand new 4K restora­tion of the film, replete with nifty add-ons and edi­fy­ing extras.

Arrow’s forth­com­ing Blu-ray discs will buff the image to a clar­i­ty nev­er before seen on a TV, not just for the the­atri­cal cut but for the director’s cut as well. There will also be audio com­men­taries galore: one from Taran­ti­no him­self, one from Scott, anoth­er from stars Chris­t­ian Slater and Patri­cia Arquette, and then one ana­lyt­i­cal­ly-angled track from crit­ic Tim Lucas.

Video inter­views with the cos­tume design­er, edi­tor, com­pos­er, a True Romance fan-fes­ti­val coor­di­na­tor, and a Tony Scott biog­ra­ph­er will shed new light on the film as well. Oth­er good­ies include a dou­ble-sided poster, six post­card-sized lob­by cards, and a 60-page book­let fea­tur­ing essays, an oral his­to­ry, and a eulo­gy for Tony Scott by Edgar Wright.

Vio­lent and fun­ny, iron­ic and roman­tic, the mod­ern-clas­sic lovers-on-the-run sto­ry belongs among the ranks of Bon­nie and Clyde, Bad­lands, and Gun Crazy. Arrow’s spiffy new release affirms that much, tes­ti­fy­ing to the stay­ing pow­er of a cru­cial zeit­geist object that now feels more like a part of his­to­ry than the cut­ting edge.