Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald Directed By: Ridley Scott Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 19, 1997 Running Time: 129 minutes Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1991
Amazon.com: Thelma & Louise is a feminist manifesto writ large on the big screen, a smart and funny gender reversal of the standard Hollywood buddy formula, a road movie extraordinaire, with characters who became instant cultural icons. No matter how you define it, Ridley Scott's 1991 box-office hit pinched a nerve and made the cover of national news magazines for tweaking gender politics like no movie before or since. Callie Khouri's screenplay overhauls the buddy formula with its story about two best friends (Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis) who embark on a liberating adventure that turns into an interstate police chase after a traumatic incident makes both women into fugitives; they are en route to a destiny they could never have imagined. The perfect casting of Sarandon and Davis makes Thelma & Louise a movie for the ages, and Brad Pitt became an overnight star after his appearance as the con-artist cowboy who gives Davis a memorable (but costly) night in a roadside motel. --Jeff Shannon
Hated this movie! I'm no Gloria Steinem but as a woman I found this way to "men hating" and all that. To me, it made women look horrible and really stuck to the bad stereotype of women. Blah! Bad accents don't help either.
Complete drivel. I used to like this movie until I really examined the contents. I guess as a man I take offense to Susan (I hate all men) Sarandon. Let's examine some of the films blatantly sexist aspects. Hmmmmm......... Davis decides to cheat on her husband, who is basically an ok guy just kind of a clown, who she ridicules because of his body. If a man would have done that in this movie, the critics would have been all over it. But as everyone knows, men are fair targets. Then Susan decides to blow up some guy's truck, I don't remember her exact motives, but it's the usual, woman with a gun, girl power, the gun acting as the male body part she lacks. Then there the part where she pulls said gun on a cop and forces him into the trunk of a car. A complete, "thumb your nose at authority especially if their male" scene. Then of course the two decide to end their own lives at the end of the movie as a final stand against being controlled by men. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!! Am I reading to much into the movie? I think not. For those who would criticize my opinions. Imagine this...........Thelma and Louise except with two male characters that go around belittling and degrading women every chance they get. I know, Hollyweird has made PLENTY of movies that are derogatory towards women, not just women but people of all races, religions. I'm sorry, maybe I'm just getting crabby in my old age, but I find these kinds of films unacceptable. If you're a woman who hates men you might enjoy this blatant anti male movie. Otherwise......... AVOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good copy! I was very pleased with this video - It was for an older woman who still uses only VHS!!!!
Why can't we just have an innocent good time? If you can imagine a blend of "9 to 5", "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Bonnie and Clyde", you should come up with an approximation of "Thelma and Louise": a mix of adventure, humor and comrade in the style of the Burt Reynold's chase movies, and getting even with the stereotypical men who try to abuse, control or recapture these 2 women intent on a short escape from their boring lives. The possession of a pistol or two and daredevil driving enables them to silence or elude most of the males who try to abuse or capture them or just have some fun with them. Clearly, Louise and Thelma initially have very different attitudes toward the men who try to seduce them. Louise makes it loud and clear she wants no part of these amorous come ons, whereas Thelma, especially after a few drinks, is often flirtaceous and sometimes willing. But, Thelma eventually learned that fooling around with strange persistent men can have traumatic consequences, and joined Louise in rebuffing these advances. According to the DVD commentary, many in the audiences cheered and clapped when Thelma's would be rapist is shot dead by Louise for his continued obscene threating remarks in the aftermath of Louise's breakup of the rape attempt. This clearly confirms what we may conclude from the popularity of confrontational westerns and action movies: that lethal vigilante justice, when done in appropriate circumstances, is considered justified by the majority of people, regardless of what the legal system thinks and does. One gets the impression that even if this duo didn't face probable long prison sentences, they might have become permanent runaways from their unsatisfying routine lives. It is significant that neither had children, which may have alleviated some of their dissatisfaction, and which made their overblown girls night out gone bad practical. The fact that both these women were often foul-mouthed, smoked and occasionally went to seedy bars turns off some viewers, who label them brainless white trash who perhaps deserve some of the misadventures they suffered in their attempt to have a short escape from their boring lives. Brad Pitt and Michael Madison provide two handsome hunks for female viewers to drool over, though very different. Brad represents the perfect con man who exploits naive vulnerable women both sexually and financially. He was the perfect bad boy for Thelma to find release in. Michael represents a man who isn't willing to settle down to a permanent one on one relationship, but who is willing to make occasional sacrifices for the women he has relationships with. The ending seems appropriate for the duo. Like Bonnie and Clyde, the pair eventually knew they were doomed to long prison sentences, or to die in a shootout, car accident or by their own device. Like Bonnie and Clyde, they were prepared to elude their pursuers as long as possible, and to engineer their deaths if capture seemed imminently certain. This DVD is of excellent quality and includes several special features, including commentary versions by the director and by a combination of the main actresses and the screen writer.
fantastic! people have given pretty accurate desriptions and synopsis of this whole movie. I would just like to add one thing on the plus and on the beware side. First the beware the scene where geena davis is being attacked that is a little on the graphic side any woman who's ever been raped beware this could trigger some traumatic memories. One plus side is Jimmy the boyfriend he turns out to be a more than all right guy he really tries to help them. There are also some great and memorable lines. My favorite "YOU ARE DIS-TURBED" "yes I believe I am" BTW I like the ending. If they were gonna go they were gonna go their own way not shot by a swat team.
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