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Title: Thelma & Louise (1991)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Susan Sarandon | ... | Louise | |
| Geena Davis | ... | Thelma | |
| Harvey Keitel | ... | Hal | |
| Michael Madsen | ... | Jimmy | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | Darryl | |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | Max | |
| Brad Pitt | ... | J.D. | |
| Timothy Carhart | ... | Harlan | |
| Lucinda Jenney | ... | Lena, the Waitress | |
| Jason Beghe | ... | State Trooper | |
| Sonny Carl Davis | ... | Albert | |
| Shelly Desai | ... | East Indian Motel Clerk (as Shelly De Sai) | |
| Ken Swofford | ... | Major | |
| Carol Mansell | ... | Waitress | |
| Stephen Polk | ... | Surveillance Man | |
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. Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
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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