Thelma & Louise |  | Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.7
MPN: D1003245D
ISBN: 0792854810
UPC: 027616873958
EAN: 9780792854814
ASIN: B00007BKVC
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1991
Release Date: February 4, 2003
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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
Product Description
In one of the greatest road movies of all time, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ride to everlasting fame as two women who embark on a crime spree across the American southwest.
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 Highly entertaining December 31, 2009
Richard Leach (Eugene, OR)
I saw Thelma and Louise for the first time in December of 2009. I found the first viewing so compelling that not only did I view the deleted scenes and alternate ending, over the next several days I also watched it through both commentaries, then the whole movie two more times again. Less than a hand full of times in my life have I ever even cared to watch a movie more than once.
One reason I avoided it for all these years is that I think I had always envisioned T&L as perhaps a modern female equivalent Butch Cassidy, et. al., type of bad girl shoot-em-up, or maybe some anti-male, female rampage-to-the-end. It's not that at all. Two otherwise middle class, middle-of-the-road, fairly attractive, rather uptight, southern women in their late-thirties who are best friends decide to take a weekend vacation trip together, ostensibly to get a much needed break from their respective less-than-fulfilling relationships.
Before ever arriving at their destination, things start to go wrong, terribly wrong, with the resultant desperado flight into oblivion that is a direct result of 1) being female in a subtly but pervasively misogynistic society, 2) making poor, but crucial, decisions as events unfold, and 3) an underlying history that becomes alluded to along the way, directly resulting from 1) and contributing significantly to 2).
I found the film score quite fitting throughout, especially the instrumental segues and interludes, which added a moody, melancholy vibe. And visually, much of the cinematography was quite striking, especially as they neared The End. (The last part was shot in the Canyonlands of Utah I believe it was.)
I think what I really liked about it was how the two women metamorphosed from "who they were" to "who they became" in their short but epic journey.
That said, though I do see metaphors within the story that are worthy of contemplation, I don't think this is some "feminist manifesto" or that there is any hidden "moral" to the story, and I appreciate many of the points put forth in some of the negative reviews here. I simply found it highly entertaining fiction, as any good movie experience should be.
There are definite "flaws." (Hence, the four stars instead of five.) Some supporting rolls seemed a bit mis-cast (or, more accurately, grossly mis-acted). Periodically there are off-the-wall things going on in the background that just don't add up. There is at least one scene that simply wouldn't have happened in the "real world," and at least one scene that seemed put in just to add comic relief. All of which gives it a quality that I find makes the whole thing a bit surreal. On the other hand, overall the "flaws" didn't bother me much, and in some respects the whole surreal quality added a little something that in its absence might've made T&L less than what it turned out to be.
DOOMED LESBIAN LOVE? November 10, 2009
Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gal pals Thelma and Louise hit the road for escape and adventure and the unknown. Are they looking for a new life or running from life? Or both? From the opening shot of an empty desert highway stretching to the horizon, we intuitively know that the end of the road is coming.
Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon are terrific as two lost souls trying to take control. At times bitter and angry, this is a feminist manifesto that forces the viewer to ride along on this fatalistic trip to the edge and beyond.
Ridley Scott's superb eye and confident direction give writer Callie Khouri's compact screenplay the emotional sheen it needs to keep the viewer aligned with the protagonists.
We think, if we could only love them, then everything will be OK. We feel the damage and abuse they have suffered and are sympathetic to their dilemma. But it's too late. They have made up their minds to take us over the edge and it is horrible and beautiful. Ahhh, sweet release.
This has been called the first mainstream lesbian hit film. (R, widescreen, 129 minutes)
 Spoiler Warning--Don't read this if you don't want to find out what happens! September 14, 2009
Christopher Tricarick
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Three things in this movie are unbelievably stupid--the two main characters and the plot. Let's see--a girl spends the whole night flirting with a guy, then he gets nasty in the parking lot and--with the help of her friend--she pushes him away. End of story, right? No--friend pulls out a gun and shoots the guy who is no longer a threat to either of them. Ok--temporary insanity--not really self-defense, but they can probably get away with calling it self-defense. Instead, no, they run away. During their "trek" Gina Davis becomes such an imbecile and so annoying the viewer almost wants to commit an act of violence against her. (she sleeps with a stranger and then leaves him alone in a hotel room that happens to contain all of her best friend's money.) Sarandon's character, by contrast, is smart and likable--smart, that is, at least until she decides to take a seven-hour detour around Texas because she does not want to be in a state where something traumatic once happened to her. Okay, understandable, to a point--but no. Someone who is fleeing for her life doesn't have time for that kind of sentimentality. And she has her (albeit moronic) friend to think of too. Anyway, between the two of them they make sure that there is absolutely no way they'll succeed, and sure enough they don't.
A feminist movie? Are people kidding? If I wanted to hate women, and think "after all women are idiots", I'd watch this movie.
And come on. The "women good, men bad" business is a little old by now, don't you think? The absurdity of the male stereotypes in this film is pathetic.
And finally, the story isn't even interesting.
If you want a movie about people rebelling against conformity or whatever, and trekking across America while doing so, watch Transamerica. Not flawless by any means, but the characters are all adults (as no one is here) none of them is a cardboard stereotype (as everyone is here) and the story is interesting and believable.
 A classic of nevermore-to-be-thwarted femininity September 4, 2009
Jean E. Pouliot (Newburyport, MA United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A classic of nevermore-to-be-thwarted femininity
I have been hearing cultural references to this film for years, and finally broke down to see it. I thought that it would be a silly female version of the buddy/road film. But I was mistaken. Eighteen years after its release, "Thelma and Louise" is still a powerful and comic indictment of the swinish side of the American male. Just about every guy in the T&L is a boor -- the loutish, self-centered husband, the non-committing, violence-prone boyfriend, the predatory rape-ready good ol' boy, the betraying hustler, the disrespectful, disgusting trucker and male-dominated law enforcement. Every stereotype of the underbelly of US masculinity is on parade and is deliciously dispatched by the unlikely heroines of the film. Thelma and Louise represent femininity looking for a little respect and freedom, and finding none, blazing a pushback trail through the American Southwest. T&L is very well acted (Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel and Christopher MacDonald are standouts), fabulously written, and believable. In spite of the serious subject matter, the film is uplifting and often hilarious. A winner.
Not Baise-moi but... September 3, 2009
Michael Kerjman (The Earth)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A tragic comedy of two mainly female loving kissing each other and their interactions with a real world on a beautiful landscapes of Grand Canyon and blue-sky US.
There is something in this work.
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