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

Hans Zimmer

Lisa Dean

Mimi Polk Gitlin

Thom Noble

Elizabeth McBride

Ridley Scott

Anne H. Ahrens

Callie Khouri

Adrian Biddle

Louis DiGiaimo

Norris Spencer

Michael Scott

Tim Moran

B. Scott Senechal

Erich O. Rose

David Canestro

Kevin Quibell

Bob Miyamoto

Kevin Kennedy

Martin J. Gibbons

Bobby Bass

Ira Belgrade

Dick Ziker

Kathy Nelson

Luca Kouimelis

Richard Arrington

Anthony Cortino

Bonita DeHaven

Dean O'Brien

Roland Neveu

Laura Perlman

Karl Wesson

Leslie Ann Anderson

Mel Dellar

Paul H. Stewart

Roger M. Janson

Timothy P. Salmon

Stan Parks

David B. Nowell

Jim Olson

Taneia Lednicky

Steve Danton

Bob Risk

Bob Rose

Mark Vitale

Vic Petrotta Jr.

Gary Clark

Alan S. Kaye

Scott Snyder

John Poyner

Alexander Witt

Richard J. Bayard

Jim Shields

Brad Rea

Robert Butch Samarzich

Kenneth Turek

Paul Amorelli

Christine Baer

R. Scott Judge

Tim Monich

Don Hildebrand

Anthony Goldschmidt

Ronnie Rondell Jr.

Tom Cox

John C. Meier

Graham V. Hartstone

Nisa Kellner

Michael Hirabayashi

Keith A. Wester

Janet Powell

David Burton

Diane Kay Grant

Terry Collis

Tony Epper

Billy Hank Hooker

Anne Melville

David Webster

Mike Ryan

Glory Fioramonti

Billy D. Lucas

Kenny Endoso

Tommy J. Huff

Bob Dewitt

Norman Howell

Steve Boyum

Marguerite Happy

Bennie Moore

Buddy Joe Hooker

Mary Peters

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Thriller

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Thelma & Louise

Scott Free Productions

Star Partners III

MGM-Pathé Communications

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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

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

CinemaSerf

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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