Love and a .45

Love and a .45 (1994) is a crime road movie you can watch online on iFILM, the feature debut of director C.M. Talkington. Watty Watts has always kept to one rule: rob stores with an unloaded gun, leave nobody hurt. His junkie partner Billy throws the rule out, shoots a witness, and suddenly Watty and his girlfriend Starlene are burning Texas asphalt toward the Mexican border.

Gil Bellows and Renée Zellweger — in one of her earliest film roles — keep the film's energy kinetic even when the plot gets rough. Peter Fonda turns up as a weathered small-time outlaw with more charm than sense. TV news crews stalk the couple across the state like a second wave of pursuit, and the film gets a lot of mileage out of that — this is a Bonnie-and-Clyde riff that was talking about media spectacle before the decade made it unavoidable. Stream Love and a .45 online on iFILM.