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Following its premiere at the 44th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 1991, Thelma & Louise was theatrically released in the United States on May 24. It became a critical and commercial success, receiving six nominations at the 64th Academy Awards, with Khouri winning Best Original Screenplay.
- Khouri partly based the main characters in the film on her friendship with country singer Pam Tillis. While working in Nashville's music scene as a waitress after dropping out of university in 1979, Khouri immediately struck up a friendship with country singer Pam Tillis as soon as she fixed Tillis a drink at the bar.
- The film initially was going to star Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster. Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster were attached to play Thelma and Louise initially as Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott (who was acting as the film's producer at the time) was looking for another director.
- Geena Davis loved the script but Susan Sarandon was more skeptical. Davis, coming off her best supporting actress win in The Accidental Tourist, had been interested early on, but not before Pfeiffer and Foster had been attached.
- Brad Pitt won his breakout role because his audition with Geena Davis was a near-disaster. Aside from the acclaim and attention the film generated for its two main stars, the breakout actor in the movie turned out to be Brad Pitt, who became a star quickly afterwards.
Thelma & Louise: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen. Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.
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Two friends, Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon), set out for a weekend vacation at a fishing cabin in the mountains to take a break from their dreary lives in Arkansas. Thelma, a housewife, is married to disrespectful and controlling carpet salesman Darryl (Christopher McDonald).
Jan 1, 1991 · January 1, 1991. 5 min read. “Thelma & Louise” is in the expansive, visionary tradition of the American road picture. It celebrates the myth of two carefree souls piling into a 1956 T-Bird and driving out of town to have some fun and raise some hell.
Aug 31, 2011 · When it was released in the summer of 1991, Thelma & Louise was declared "the first movie I've ever seen which told the downright truth" by a lesbian activist in Los Angeles and a "paean to...
Thelma & Louise. Meek housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) joins her friend Louise (Susan Sarandon), an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from...
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