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Rated: R; Length: 129 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama; With: Timothy Carhart, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt and Susan Sarandon See More

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Thelma & Louise
B
By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

THELMA & LOUISE (R) In this high-powered feminist buddy movie, Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) are good old girls from Arkansas who take off for a weekend joyride. When Louise murders a would-be rapist, the two hop in their T-bird convertible and head for the Mexican border. Their getaway gradually turns into a barnstorming, hell-bound odyssey-a joyous descent into criminality, liberation, and, finally, oblivion. Director Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) seems to have taken all the famous movies about two self-destructive outlaws-everything from Butch Cassidy to Badlands-put them into a compactor, and given the whole package an up-to-the-minute, polyurethane gloss. Thelma & Louise never quite connects with us emotionally, yet the more it shades off into the gonzo-poetic, the more fun it becomes. Scott turns the Southwestern settings into a spectacular sunbaked dreamscape, and the two actresses take their roles as far as they can go, lending even the shamelessly operatic finale a surreal conviction. B


Posted May 31, 1991
 

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