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Release Date: 1991 Cast: Geena Davis, Timothy Carhart, Susan Sarandon, Brad Pitt, Jason Beghe, Marco St. John, Sonny Carl Davis, Lucinda Jenney, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Harvey Keitel
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Female buddy film, Buddy film, Chase Movie, Road movie, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Outlaw, Feminist Film Thelma & Louise is a 1991 film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled and caged lives. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, and co-stars Harvey Keitel as a sympathetic detective trying to trace them as they go on the run after killing a rapist. Michael Madsen plays the role of Louise's boyfriend. Brad Pitt (in one of his first significant film roles) plays a robber out on parole.
Thelma & Louise became an instant critical and commercial success, receiving... MORE
Thelma & Louise is a 1991 film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled and caged lives. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, and co-stars Harvey Keitel as a sympathetic detective trying to trace them as they go on the run after killing a rapist. Michael Madsen plays the role of Louise's boyfriend. Brad Pitt (in one of his first significant film roles) plays a robber out on parole.
Thelma & Louise became an instant critical and commercial success, receiving six Academy Award nominations and winning one for Best Original Screenplay (Khouri). Both Sarandon and Davis were nominated for their roles in the same category, Academy Award for Best Actress. However, the two lost the award to Jodie Foster for her role in The Silence of the Lambs.
Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) is a passive, goofy, housewife, married to a controlling husband, Darryl (Christopher McDonald). Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) is a single waitress who appears strong, organized, and stern, with some unspecified trauma in her past. The two friends head out in Louise's Ice Blue 1966 LESS
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