Actors - Thelma and Louise

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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

Susan Sarandon
as Louise Sawyer
Geena Davis
as Thelma Dickenson
Harvey Keitel
as Hal Slocumb
Michael Madsen
as Jimmy
Christopher McDonald
as Darryl Dickenson
Brad Pitt
as J.D.
Stephen Tobolowsky
as Max
Timothy Carnhart as Harlan
Marco St. John
as Truck driver

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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