
Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they ... (Full plot summary below)
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Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police.
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| People MagazineRalph NovakAny movie that went as far out of its way to trash women as this female chauvinist sow of a film does to trash men would be universally, and justifiably, condemned. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonThe best thing that Ridley Scott ever directed that didn't take place in an impressively designed industrial future. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonIn creating the characters Thelma and Louise for this hugely entertaining and controversial road movie, Oscar-winning scriptwriter Callie Khouri put women in the driving seat for the first time. |
| Empire MagazineAngie ErrigoStill compelling and inspiring after all these years. |
| Common Sense MediaDavid GurneyFeminist road movie is only for the very mature. |
| TIME MagazineRichard SchickelScott has balanced action, comedy and doomy subtext to create a morally firm yet very entertaining fable that reaches out to an audience far larger than its natural feminist constituency. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellThis is a movie to love, that touches you in places you never suspected, that shows you that the road less traveled is the road to your dreams. |
| Film4Film4 StaffThe climax is truly shattering -- but a fitting end to a film that trades in intelligence as much as it does in style. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA rousing road movie about the journey of self-discovery of two women |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanRight from its gratuitously gorgeous opening shot-a beckoning panorama of red-rock mesas Thelma & Louis lets you know that it's going to be well, bigger than just another road movie. |