Scott seems most at home when shooting the exterior scenes on the desert highways, using the area as both inviting and deadly. It's still a great film.
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05/26/06
Thelma & Louise (1991)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:39
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a... [More]
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Christopher McDonald
Director: Ridley Scott
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Reviews for Thelma & Louise
This is a movie to love, that touches you in places you never suspected, that shows you that the road less traveled is the road to your dreams.
01/01/00
This beautifully realized picture remains a trenchant, almost mystical slice of Americana.
02/19/03
A rousing road movie about the journey of self-discovery of two women
07/19/03
What sets Thelma & Louise aside from the great central tradition of the road picture is that the heroes are women this time.
10/23/04
Top CriticStill compelling and inspiring after all these years.
05/07/08
Thelma & Louise becomes more compelling as it rolls along.
01/01/00
An exhilarating vehicle for Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, it spins its wheels in a giddy sort of way, then puts the pedal to the mettle, lays rubber and fairly takes wing.
01/01/00
Top CriticRidley Scott does a pretty good job of showing how much cooler it is to be an outlaw than a waitress or a harried wife.
12/06/05
This may be one of the most intelligent cross-country chase films.
01/01/00
A deep and dangerous drama about two incredibly lonely women whose dreary lives are made brighter only through their companionship and self-reliance.
07/20/04
Their adventures, while tinged with the fatalism that attends any crime spree, have the thrilling, life-affirming energy for which the best road movies are remembered.
05/20/03
Top Criticone of the best buddies-on-the-run movies ever made.
04/08/09
...a good action-adventure movie and a welcome variation on the standard road picture or the usual male-dominated buddy flick.
12/24/02
An American classic that gets a worthy DVD treatment.
02/10/03
Sarandon and Davis bring a lot of unpredictable verve and nuance to their parts.
05/07/08
Top CriticThis is a film not to be missed.
03/23/03
Thelma and Louise’s feminist call to arms winds up sounding woefully simple-minded.
03/19/03
Scott has balanced action, comedy and doomy subtext to create a morally firm yet very entertaining fable that reaches out to an audience far larger than its natural feminist constituency.
08/16/09
Top CriticEven those who don't rally to pic's fed-up feminist outcry will take to its comedy, momentum and dazzling visuals.
05/07/08
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