Thelma & Louise (1991)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 11
Simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and peppered with action, Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise is a potent, well-acted road movie that transcends the feminist message at its core.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 4
Simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and peppered with action, Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise is a potent, well-acted road movie that transcends the feminist message at its core.
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Movie Info
Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon play Thelma and Louise, two working-class friends who together have planned a weekend getaway from the men in their lives. Thelma's husband, Darryl (Chris McDonald), is an overbearing oaf, and Louise's boyfriend, Jimmy (Michael Madsen), simply will not commit. Though the road trip starts out as a good time, the pair eventually wind up at a bar. A tipsy Thelma ends up in the parking lot of the bar with a would-be rapist. Louise shoots the man dead. The two decide
May 24, 1991 Wide
Feb 4, 2003
MGM
Cast
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Susan Sarandon
Louise Sawyer -
Geena Davis
Thelma Dickinson -
Harvey Keitel
Hal Slocumb -
Michael Madsen
Jimmy -
Christopher McDonald
Darryl -
Brad Pitt
J.D. -
Jason Beghe
State Trooper -
Timothy Carhart
Harlan Puckett -
Sonny Carl Davis
Albert -
Shelly Desai
East Indian Motel Cl... -
Michael Delman
Silver Bullet Dancer -
Rob Roy Fitzgerald
Plainclothes Cop -
Lucinda Jenney
Lena the Waitress -
Jack Lindine
I.D. Tech -
Carol Mansell
Waitress -
Stephen Polk
Surveillance Man -
Kristel L. Rose
Girl Smoker -
Marco St. John
Truck Driver -
Ken Swofford
Major -
Noel L. Walcott III
Mountain Bike Rider -
Charlie Sexton
Himself -
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All Critics (63) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (11) | DVD (31)
This unexpected delight, which travels at top speed from the doldrums to the Grand Canyon, is moreover blessed with two high-octane performances.
Top CriticThere are plenty of great one-liners in Callie Khouri's script, and cinematographer Adrian Biddle never fails to give viewers an eye full -- even when it's a ridiculous eye full.
The feminist justification that the script provides for the heroines' behavior doesn't make their actions any less preposterous. But you can recognize the crudeness of the movie's narrative devices and still have an awfully good time.
Thelma & Louise isn't only a movie, it's also a journey. In some dark night of your distant past, you might once have dreamed about taking it.
If the only way a woman can light up the screen these days is with a .38-caliber pistol, isn't that just another form of subordination?
Are we so starved for "strong" women's roles that this revenge, and the pell-mell, lunatic flight that follows, fits anyone's definition of strength, or even more peculiarly, of neo-feminism?
If director Scott intended to picture a growing sense of female triumph, he failed miserably.
Thelma & Louise has its own ending. It may be as questionable as the rest of the picture, but at least you know it wasn't spliced on by some guy in marketing.
Female empowerment and gorgeous vistas from Ridley Scott,
Any movie that went as far out of its way to trash women as this female chauvinist sow of a film does to trash men would be universally, and justifiably, condemned.
The two lead characters, played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, are appealing at start but become tiresome as they move along.
In creating the characters Thelma and Louise for this hugely entertaining and controversial road movie, Oscar-winning scriptwriter Callie Khouri put women in the driving seat for the first time.
Loyalty and friendship between two women who discover beauty, lust, and the wonder of the road is at the heart of "Thelma & Louise."
A film about the type of women's liberation that I despise.
Thelma & Louise encounter representatives of different types of maleness from barroom skirt chaser and leering truck driver to the swaggering young hustler (a star-is-born Brad Pitt) who delivers Thelma's sexual awakening and steals the pair's cash.
An exciting slice of action cinema, a poignant drama, a snarky southern-fried comedy and a knockout road picture.
Iconic film from the 1990s.
Say what you will about Thelma & Louise (many have), but there's no doubt that it was a zeitgeist picture with a potent cultural impact. [Blu-ray]
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Movies Like Thelma & Louise
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- Jimmy: I just want you to be happy.
- Louise Sawyer: I am happy, sweetie. Happy as I can be.
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- Thelma Dickinson: I don' t ever remember feeling this awake.
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- Louise Sawyer: I'm in deep shit; Deep Shit, Arkansas.
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Foreign Titles
- Thelma et Louise (FR)
