Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THELMA & LOUISE Directed by Ridley Scott; Screenplay by Callie Khouri...
...gave us Bonnie and Clyde, Butch and Sundance. The '70s gave us The Sugarland Express and Badlands. Maybe one of the troubles with the '80s was that its movies were singularly lacking in truly memorable outlaw couples. Thelma & Louise is a sign that things are looking...
...title clearly announces the film's most significant innovation. Thelma & Louise is the first important movie to plop two women in a car and send them careering down open Western roads with the cops in wheel-spinning pursuit. And it is the first movie to use sexism as the motivating force for their misdeeds...
...last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma and Louise, with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. The success of T&L, or of Soapdish with Sally Field and Whoopi Goldberg, or of Warshawski with Kathleen Turner would mark the welcome infiltration of female-star vehicles in the boys' camp of summer movies...
...tight are things at MGM? The studio has delayed the release of two completed films, Delirious and Thelma and Louise, because it doesn't have the money to pay for prints and advertising. Such postponements are "unique and embarrassing," says Peter Bart, editor of Variety, Hollywood's top trade magazine. You can't blame Mickey Rourke and those crew members for worrying: some studio employees have seen their paychecks bounce. Parretti needs about $250 million to cover operating costs, future marketing costs and release of the films now held up. To raise the money he is appealing to European investors...