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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302250268
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6302250269
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: May 07, 1996
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1991
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
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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Rating:  -
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.
Rating:  -
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 ... Read More
Rating:  -
To describe this movie as feminist is ridiculous. The female leads don't use their heads, operate on pure and unchecked emotion (mostly fear-based), seem to feel alive only when they're exhibiting the same level of violence that the cartoon-character-evil-men they cross paths with have exhibited towards them, and finally "triumph" by committing suicide, albeit in a "romantic" fashion by driving their convertible, top-down, over a cliff at the Grand Canyon while they clasp hands in hysterical "sisterhood."
Give me a f^%$#&^g break here, people. Feminisim is about responsibility every bit as much as it's about freedom. I don't know about your world, but in mine it's necessary to have a functioning brain, to be capable of rational thought and right action, to know when to ask for help and when to give it, and to be able to exercise some impulse control and deal effectively with unfair and sometimes even abusive treatment. Because it's not a perfect world. Not for men, and not for ... Read More
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This movie was exellent. It was brand new so there was nothing wrong with it.
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It is impossible to defend everything Thelma and Louise did as events unraveled. Never mind illegalities; some of their misdeeds were deliberate and just plain wrong.
However, I consistently wanted them to make it. If Louise was not going to turn her back on Thelma, then neither was I. Louise was the brains behind the outfit. Thelma was naive and less-than-intelligent, and she cost Louise dearly many times. No one could have blamed Louise for letting Thelma go in hopes that she (Lousie) could still make it.
Louise's love and friendship for Thelma turned out to be more fierce than her instinct for survival. Who wouldn't want to be on their team?
Another compelling thing about this film is the go-for-broke mentality. As their situations deteriorate, they start pushing boundaries and limits in ways that most of us never will. It becomes impossible to look away.
If you have only ever watched this on cable, you should rent this film at least ... Read More
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