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Thelma & Louise

  • 1991
  • Tous publics
  • 2h 10m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise (1991)
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Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.

  • Director
    • Ridley Scott
  • Writer
    • Callie Khouri
  • Stars
    • Susan Sarandon
    • Geena Davis
    • Harvey Keitel
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    185K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,317
    514
    • Director
      • Ridley Scott
    • Writer
      • Callie Khouri
    • Stars
      • Susan Sarandon
      • Geena Davis
      • Harvey Keitel
    • 432User reviews
    • 161Critic reviews
    • 89Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 24 wins & 52 nominations total

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    Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon
    • Louise
    Geena Davis
    Geena Davis
    • Thelma
    Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel
    • Hal
    Michael Madsen
    Michael Madsen
    • Jimmy
    Christopher McDonald
    Christopher McDonald
    • Darryl
    Stephen Tobolowsky
    Stephen Tobolowsky
    • Max
    Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    • J.D.
    Timothy Carhart
    Timothy Carhart
    • Harlan
    Lucinda Jenney
    Lucinda Jenney
    • Lena, the Waitress
    Jason Beghe
    Jason Beghe
    • State Trooper
    Sonny Carl Davis
    Sonny Carl Davis
    • Albert
    Shelly Desai
    Shelly Desai
    • East Indian Motel Clerk
    • (as Shelly De Sai)
    Ken Swofford
    Ken Swofford
    • Major
    Carol Mansell
    Carol Mansell
    • Waitress
    Stephen Polk
    Stephen Polk
    • Surveillance Man
    Rob Roy Fitzgerald
    Rob Roy Fitzgerald
    • Plainclothes Cop
    Jack Lindine
    Jack Lindine
    • I.D. Tech
    Michael Doman
    • Silver Bullet Dancer
    • (as Michael Delman)
    • Director
      • Ridley Scott
    • Writer
      • Callie Khouri
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    User reviews432

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    9masonsaul

    Incredible adventure

    Thelma and Louise is an incredible, if familiar, adventure that's funny, well paced and emotional. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis give incredible performances and have fantastic chemistry. Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt and Michael Madsen all give really good supporting performances. Ridley Scott's direction is amazing and the music by Hans Zimmer is great as well as the soundtrack.
    10tragiclaura5

    We'll be drinking margaritas by the sea, mamasita!

    Boy oh boy, where to start with this one? This movie affected me so deeply when it first came out. I saw it many times in the theater and was blown away every single time. Deep and powerful, yet hilarious and fun in many parts. This one is flawless. My girlfriends and I still quote lines from this. This movie is NOT man bashing. It has some very powerful things to say about choices, friendship and the life that you make for yourself. Truly memorable and the kind of movie that really stays with you.
    7Nazi_Fighter_David

    A rare moment in cinema of the total rejection of the rule of law and patriarchy

    The road movie is traditionally a male genre, relying on the sense of freedom and independence that having one's own transport provides and which has usually been the privilege of men… What is innovatory about "Thelma & Louise" is the way it reequips the genre for women…

    Thelma (Geena Davis) is a housewife trapped in a meaningless marriage, Louise (Susan Sarandon) is a waitress in a not very significant relationship… They decide to give themselves a little space by taking off for a weekend… But when Louise shoots a man who is trying to rape Thelma, they are precipitated into a far more radical break with their past lives…

    The setting of action in the American southwest and the acts of outlawry the women are obliged to commit in order to keep on the run give the film some of the feel of a Western… What makes it nevertheless a women's film is that the relationship between the two principals is at the center of the story… The various men they encounter, both the ones they leave behind and those they meet on the road have less importance for Thelma and Louise than the two women do for each other…

    Predictably, the film met with hostility from some male viewers, on the grounds that the men were caricatured and that the film encouraged violence
    dbdumonteil

    car emptiness...

    Through his career, Ridley Scott was an eclectic film-maker because he broached (with success) several cinema styles: science-fiction with "Alien", historical film with "1492: Christopher Colombus". Here, he succeeded very well his way to the road-movie and this one is listed among the best road-movies ever made. At first look, the story looks simple and without too many claims: two young women, Thelma and Louise are going out for the week-end with the firm intention of having a ball. But what they don't know is that this drive will soon become a descent into hell... The movie is worth seeing for its two main actresses: Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, both outstanding and what interests Ridley Scott, is their temperament and their evolution during the movie. At the beginning, a sensitive and fragile Thelma is next to a energetic and realistic Louise but in the second part of the movie, more precisely, after Thelma burglarized a shop (probably the best sequence in the whole movie) in order to grab money, roles are reversed. This is an occasion to make out Louise's wounds and weaknesses. So, don't rely too much on appearances... "Thelma and Louise" is also a movie where Scott takes a lucid look on the hidden side of the American society and especially on men. Scott introduces them to us with their worst faults: either they're macho (Darryl), obscene (the truck driver), perverse (the rapist) or coward (the cop). The only one saved is Harvey Keitel who never falls into the caricature of the American cop usually described to us as merciless or obsequious. Here, he shows understanding and even compassion towards the two runaways, notably Louise because he knows that she hides a terrible secret. A dynamic and panting movie where laugh and sorrow are skillfully married.
    Old Joe

    Somebody said get a life. so they did!

    For many years now, women have taken power into their own hands. So I am sure the women that campaigned for freedom and liberty, would have loved the movie, 'Thelma and Louise'. The tradition of the American road trip is shown in such a refreshing way in this movie, with its two lead characters people who are fed up with life, and no longer take any crap from the men that they live with or that they meet. Thelma and Louise is a film that will make you feel warm, but also leave a some what 'bitter-sweet' taste in your mouth.

    Thelma and Louise are best friends on a desperate flight across the American Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With determined detective Hal on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker called 'J.D.' in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between a hilarious, high-octane joy ride and an empowering personal odyssey... even as the law closes in.

    'Thelma and Louise' are exceptionally well written characters for the big-screen. Callie Khouri wrote a fascinating script, capturing the 'female power' beautifully. But it is in her characters that I like the most. While, I had feelings for both Thelma and Louise, I also wanted the pair to get caught, and part of me also loved what made the pair the individuals that they were. This is all from the great work of Khouri, who is an intelligent screenwriter. I have watched this film a couple of weeks after viewing another of Callie's movies, 'Something to talk about', another movie from the female point of view that both sexes can enjoy.

    Yet Callie's screenplay would have been a waste, if the actors did not play their part properly. The main stars here are Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon), who are some what fed up with the life that they are living, and plan a trip to get away from everything. Things soon start to get out of hand for the women, and when trouble causes them have shoot and kill somebody, the fun really starts. In fact from the time that this incident begins and concludes, the movie to the very end was for me, one great joy ride.

    Davis and Sarandon share a great bond on the film. Thelma and Louise are great friends, but completely different characters in their own right. Davis plays a ditsy sort of character, who is naïve, but becomes an individual once again, after the men in her life have been nothing but tragedy after tragedy. Then with Sarandon, I got the feeling that she was the one that had the 'balls' out of the two, making her best friend realise that they should stand for no crap anymore. It was a shame that neither actress won an academy award for their role, but of course they were up against a great performer in another 1991 movie, that being Jodie Foster in 'Silence of the Lambs'. If foster was not there, I am certain that one of these two would have walked away with an academy award.

    Yet there are other cast members that need to be highlighted from 'Thelma and Louise'. I enjoyed what DJ (Brad Pitt) brought to the film. He was a character that I trusted, but like the girls, I was scorned after working out how bad he was. Then there is Louise's love interest, Jimmy (Michael Madison), who shows his girlfriend glimpses of what she is trying to escape, and that being married to him would be a mistake. Then to round the cast of this film is Police detective Hal (played by Hollywood legend, Harvey Keitel). Hal is genuinely interested in working out the situation with the girls, but realises that these are extraordinary women, in an extraordinary situation.

    'Thelma and Louise' is well directed by Oscar winning director, Ridley Scott. I feel that he brought out the road trip of the girls well, making it really interesting for the viewer, as we want to know what is going to happen as the girls go from one situation to another. Scott also helps to define what makes the girls tick as individuals, and to why they are such great friends. He also makes it easy for his audience to understand what theses girls are doing is necessary to their freedom and survival.

    I also like the locations that were chosen and shot for this movie, showing off much of America that we rarely get the chance to see. The American west, which is where the majority of the film takes place, looks partly like a fun place to live, but also a place that holds great danger for the girls. Thelma also emphasises that going through 'Texas' is completely out of the picture. Then when the girls are really on the run we get the chance to see some of the great cannons that America has to offer. The camera work by cinematographer Adrian Biddle is exceptional, and makes wonder what it would be like to visit such a part of the world.

    There is a lot to like about this movie. Things like its style, story, lingo, characters and conclusion, which are all captivating. I feel that the audience of this movie is on an intoxicating sort of ride here, by the sort adventure that 'Thelma and Louise' allows us to experience. We are affected by what affects this pair. Well I know I was anyway. This movie also proves, by creating more problems, you do not make the situation you are in better, but much worse. Nevertheless, it looks like fun to be on the run!

    CMRS gives 'Thelma and Louise': 4.5 (Very Good - Brilliant Film)

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    • Trivia
      The scene where Louise grabs Thelma's headphones from her and scares her was not planned. In the DVD's audio commentary, Geena Davis commented where she was supposed to get up when Susan Sarandon called her from the car, but had the volume on her Walkman turned up too high, and did not hear her cue, so Susan came over to get her.
    • Goofs
      While it is a popular movie trope that a caller must stay on the line a minimum amount of time before the call can be traced, by the time of this movie's setting, calls could be traced as soon as the connection was made. This is true even with a landline, a public phone, or a long distance call, as was the case in the film.
    • Quotes

      State Trooper: [sobbing] Please! I have a wife and kids. Please!

      Thelma: You do? Well, you're lucky. You be sweet to 'em, especially your wife. My husband wasn't sweet to me. Look how I turned out.

    • Alternate versions
      The DVD retains the original MGM logo, but used the 1995 master of Leo's roar.
    • Connections
      Edited into Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Little Honey
      Written by John Doe & Dave Alvin (as David Alvin)

      Performed by Kelly Willis

      Produced by Tony Brown

      Courtesy of MCA Records

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    • Release date
      • May 29, 1991 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • France
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Thelma y Louise, un final inesperado
    • Filming locations
      • Courthouse Towers, Arches National Park, Utah, USA(scene where Thelma & Louise lock police officer in his patrol car trunk)
    • Production companies
      • Pathé Entertainment
      • Percy Main
      • Star Partners III Ltd.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $16,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $45,360,915
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,101,297
      • May 27, 1991
    • Gross worldwide
      • $45,473,912
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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