Part of Weekend Classics: Lovers on the Lam
Thelma and Louise — a bored housewife and a strait-laced waitress at a coffee shop — are best friends, both sick of what they’ve settled for. To escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise’s ’66 T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip with no husbands, no boyfriends and no problems. But things don’t go according to plan when an encounter with a drunken, foul-mouthed, would-be rapist transforms their quiet getaway into a cross-country escape that will change their lives forever. New 4K Restoration
“The screenplay, by former Nashvillian Callie Khouri, is an unusually assured piece of writing, a wild, ambitious scrambling of genres and moods. It’s the road movie to end all road movies. Khouri consciously sets her heroines on the road because it’s the center of our psychic landscape, the symbol of all human possibility.” —Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene (May 30, 1991) “Begins like an episode of ‘I Love Lucy’ and ends with the impact of EASY RIDER.” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone “Sarandon and Davis are nothing short of perfect in their characterizations… This 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.” —Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle (May 24, 1991)
