Susan Sarandon

Geena Davis

Harvey Keitel

Michael Madsen

Christopher McDonald

Stephen Tobolowsky

Brad Pitt

Timothy Carhart

Lucinda Jenney

Jason Beghe

Sonny Carl Davis

Ken Swofford

Shelly Desai

Carol Mansell

Stephen Polk

Rob Roy Fitzgerald

Jack Lindine

Michael Delman

Kristel L. Rose

Noel L. Walcott III

Marco St. John

Gregory J. Barnett

Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc

Charlie Sexton

Ridley Scott

Callie Khouri

Mimi Polk Gitlin

Hans Zimmer

Adrian Biddle

Thom Noble

Louis DiGiaimo

Norris Spencer

Lisa Dean

Elizabeth McBride

Anne H. Ahrens

Ira Belgrade

Michael Scott

Erich O. Rose

Bob Miyamoto

Kevin Kennedy

David Canestro

Martin J. Gibbons

Tim Moran

Kevin Quibell

Bobby Bass

B. Scott Senechal

Dick Ziker

Roland Neveu

Kathy Nelson

Laura Perlman

Luca Kouimelis

Leslie Ann Anderson

Richard Arrington

Bonita DeHaven

Karl Wesson

Anthony Cortino

Dean O'Brien

Mel Dellar

Paul Stewart

Steve Danton

Richard J. Bayard

Gary Clark

Roger M. Janson

Alan S. Kaye

Jim Olson

Vic Petrotta Jr.

Robert Butch Samarzich

Scott Snyder

Kenneth Turek

Mark Vitale

John Poyner

Bob Risk

Timothy P. Salmon

Jim Shields

Stan Parks

Paul Amorelli

R. Scott Judge

David B. Nowell

Brad Rea

Bob Rose

Alexander Witt

Taneia Lednicky

Christine Baer

Anthony Goldschmidt

Don Hildebrand

Tim Monich

Ronnie Rondell Jr.

Tom Cox

John C. Meier

Keith A. Wester

Graham V. Hartstone

Nisa Kellner

Janet Powell

Michael Hirabayashi

Tony Epper

David Burton

Kenny Endoso

Diane Kay Grant

Glory Fioramonti

Terry Collis

Steve Boyum

Bob Dewitt

Billy Hank Hooker

Norman Howell

Marguerite Happy

Anne Melville

Bennie Moore

Billy D. Lucas

Mike Ryan

Tommy J. Huff

David Webster

Buddy Joe Hooker

Mary Peters

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Thelma & Louise

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Pathé Entertainment

Scott Free Productions

Star Partners III Ltd.

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

robbery

waitress

southern usa

self-defense

highway

housewife

female friendship

arkansas

grand canyon

road trip

thief

sexual harassment

murder

betrayal

on the run

hitchhiker

buddy

desert

attempted rape

wild west

wiretapping

road movie

neo-western

sexual assault

fleeing

accidental crime

female outlaw

roadtrip

runaway woman

inspirational

sexual oppression

female protagonists

intense

defiant

female emancipation

oppressive home

***Entertaining but tragic road flick with Sarandon and Davis***

Two women from Arkansas (Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis) become fugitives and travel through the Southwest pursued by authorities (Harvey Keitel & Stephen Tobolowsky). Brad Pitt plays a cowboy drifter while Michael Madsen and Christopher McDonald are on hand as the beau and hubby of the women. 

"Thelma & Louise" (1991) is an iconic crime drama/road movie spiced with a few thrills. It’s entertaining, but not really empowering for females, unless making rash, stupid decisions and ruining your life is empowering. It’s amusing, dramatic and scenic, yet ultimately tragic. 

Sarandon was 41 during shooting while Davis was ten years younger. Both look great, but their characters are a bit of a turn-off during the opening reel, especially the ditzy Thelma (Davis), yet they win sympathy as the movie progresses.  

The film runs 2 hours, 10 minutes, and was shot in Southern Cal and Utah, as well as Bedrock, Colorado.

GRADE: B

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Thirty-odd years later, and this is still a classic piece of cinema. It all centres around best pals "Thelma" (Geena Davis) and "Louise" (Susan Sarandon) who are a bit bored with their respective fellas and set off on a drive. Stopping off at a roadside bar, things get out of hand when the latter woman shoots dead a man trying to rape her friend. Now it's a dark car park and they had been drinking and dancing with this guy all night, so circumstances being what they are - the girls decide discretion is the better part of valour and off they drive. Not long after, Harvey Keitel's dogged police officer "Hal" shows up and pretty soon the girls are on the run. They have to stay one step ahead of their pursuers, find a way to get some cash and decide what to do with the hunky "J.D." (Brad Pitt), an hiker who has hitched his team to their wagon - much to the delight of "Thelma" - en route to safety in Mexico (just not via Texas!)! It's a film about self discovery I suppose, but really it is an entertaining romp from two women letting the badger loose. Pitt provides the now legendary eye-candy in his 501s and the whole things demonstrates a light-hearted criminality reminiscent of "Bonnie and Clyde". There are plenty of laughs to be had, the performances all round are engaging and charismatic and it's full of attitude. If I'd been on a jury - they'd have walked!

Thelma & Louise( 1991)

Somebody said get a life...so they did.

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Wed Dec 18 2019

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