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Thelma and Louise is a road movie from 1991
conceived and written by Callie Khouri
, co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Geena Davis
as Thelma, Susan Sarandon
as Louise, and Harvey Keitel
as a sympathetic detective trying to solve crimes that the two women find easier and easier to commit. Michael Madsen
plays Louise's boyfriend and Christopher McDonald
plays Thelma's controlling husband. Brad Pitt
(in his first significant role in a major Hollywood film) plays a robber on parole who befriends Thelma on the road. The film was released on May 24, 1991.

Plot

The film follows the women as they head out in Louise's green 1966 Thunderbird convertible for a two-day adventure which starts horribly but then sees them change from victims of circumstance into icons of feminism.

The film shares plot line and visual elements with other road movies, particularly the 1979 movie
Messidor by Alain Tanner
.

Khouri won an Academy Award for a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen; Scott, Davis, Sarandon, cinematographer Adrian Biddle, and film editor Thom Noble also won Oscar nominations. The film also won Scott nominations for a César Award for Best Foreign Film and a DGA Award.

The British Film Institute published a book (ISBN 0851708099) about the film in 2000, as part of a Modern Classics series.

Cast

Trivia

  • Meryl Streep
    and Goldie Hawn
    wanted to make a movie together and one of the scripts they considered was Thelma and Louise.
  • Cher
    was offered the role of Louise, but turned it down.
  • In the sequence where Darryl slips and falls over the builder's supplies as he was leaving for work was unscripted, as Christopher McDonald
    genuinely lost his footing. Despite this he remained in character and yelled at the workmen and drove away. Ridley Scott apparently liked the result, and so it remains in the film.
  • Fito Paez composed a song called "Dos dias en la vida" (Two days in life), featured in the album "El amor despues del amor". the lyric talking about the movie.
  • Singer/songwriter Tori Amos wrote Me And a Gun after watching this movie, being stirred to write about her own experience with sexual assault and telling no one about it for 6 years.

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