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Thelma & Louise [Region 2] | ![Thelma & Louise [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21K6D1F3PML._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher Mcdonald
Category: DVD
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Rating:  136 reviews
Sales Rank: 247125
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
EAN: 7321921567278
ASIN: B00004RYED
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1991
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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
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 "Movies Don't Get Any Better Than This!" March 25, 2009
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
1991 was an amazing year for movies; everything from "The Silence of the Lambs" to "The Prince of Tides" entertained audiences, but that year one film became a true classic-a film many regard as one of Hollywood's best-"Thelma and Louise".
Written by Callie Khourie, who recieved an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, "Thelma and Louise" tells the tale of two best friends who go to the mountains for a weekend getaway, but a stop at a roadside bar changes their plans and lives forever. Escaping the police, Thelma and Louise encounter many characters on their cross-country journey, as they head to Mexico and a new life. Heavily regarded as one of the best buddy films ever made, the film is really a woman's picture, telling the story of how women are just as good as men, and how men can be arrogant, pompous, and abusive toward their female counterparts. I love this film.
Brad Pitt had his first mainstream role in this, and both Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis received Oscar nods for their performances.
The DVD is filled with bonuses; there's four documentaries on the movie, audio commentaries with director Ridley Scott, the two stars, and the writer, and the treasure here are 30 minutes of newly discovered deleted scenes found by the studio.
A wonderful comedy/drama, "Thelma and Louise" never ages...it gets better as the years go by. An ageless film in every sense.
 A rare moment in cinema of the total rejection of the rule of law and patriarchy... February 11, 2009
Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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...
Guns, women and vengeance! February 7, 2009
Gina Marie (COLORADO, hermit cave)
One of my favorite movies! I caught this movie awhile ago playing on AMC. I was in love with it after only a few minutes! This movie details the rebellious actions of two small-town friends who begin a spontaneous road trip after abuse by men. After one man tries to rape Thelma (Davis) in the parking lot of a bar they went to during a fishing trip the two women were taking, Louise defends Thelma by shooting and killing him. The road trip turns into something different. Thelma worrys that no one would find him guilty and Louise worrys that she will be prosecuted for killing him, they head out on the road. This starts the crux of the movie and ends in a most notable scene that defines the movie.
Why the hell does this titles movie search bring up such crappy movies like Steel Magnolias or Beaches! One word: scary!!!
2.5 stars out of 4 January 3, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
A mediocre chicks-on-the-run film with inexplicably bizarre scenes (a passing biker blowing marijuana smoke into a car trunk which houses a captured cop?), Thelma and Louise may have an iconic last scene but it's not an interesting, enjoyable, or particularly-good film.
Lucky Man December 30, 2008
Howard M. Kindel
That would be me watching this movie. Because I didn't attempt to see it through some ideological filter. Of course it's not a "feminist" tract - bear in mind that that's merely how some PR types tried to market it. Which goes to show how absurd marketing is. If it's anything even remotely relating to "feminism," it's a cautionary tale advising women not to leap blindly into something they don't understand. But of course it's not about that either. It's a movie about two women who make a series of disastrous choices that literally brings them to the edge of a cliff with nowhere to go but over. It's also a movie that shows the dark side of "freedom." Yes, Thelma and Louise attain a level of carefree freedom most people will never experience. And they pay a terrible price for it. And it's a movie about contrasts, showing men as callous users (via the Brad Pitt character) and also as caring helpers (via the Harvey Keitel character). But above all else, it's a movie about two humans getting caught up in a maddening spiral of events that have taken on a life of their own - a perfect parable for what's happening all over the world, day in and day out. You set something in motion and from that moment on it's beyond your control. Thelma and Louise's only "triumph" is their acknowledgment that they have done this to themselves. They don't say so of course; but their final action says it for them. In that sense, this movie bears some resemblance to one of my other nominees for greatest movie of all time - The Bridge on the River Kwai, wherein the Alec Guiness character finally realizes his great mistake; but realizes it too late to save himself. Just like Thelma and Louise.
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