Love and a .45

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. Set in rural Texas, the film follows a criminal and his girlfriend who plan a convenience store robbery to pay off debts to local gangsters. A friend of the criminal ropes him into a bigger heist that goes wrong, leading the couple to flee to Mexico while becoming media sensations for their crime spree. Zellweger shared that she first learned about the project while working on Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4, when Matthew McConaughey was being considered for a role in the film.