Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer (Thelma & Louise)
Feminist sensations of the early ’90s, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. Image: MGM
Besties Thelma (Davis) and Louise (Sarandon) hit the road after Thelma is violently assaulted outside a country & western bar somewhere out in the great American west. Louise guns the would-be rapist down, setting the two off on an increasingly spiked and curving path through the backwoods world of homicide, theft, sex, and stupidity. Screenwriter Callie Khouri suggests it’s a sexist society that forces women into the role of anti-heroes, with no other path to justice and safety available but the renegade one.
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