Thelma & Louise

Released: 1991
Drama
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Gena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel
Running Time: 130 minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown:  Two women run off on what's supposed to be a three day vacation and turn into criminals.

I had heard a lot about this movie and remembered that there was supposed to be some controversial ending and that the test audiences didn't like the original ending so they changed it to what the current ending is.   So with that, I wanted to see it because of all that, not really for the plot line itself.

I can't imagine why people made a big deal of this movie, it's not great.  It was ok, but nothing to make a fuss over for me personally.
It starts out that Davis plays a housewife who's in an unhappy marriage with her controlling husband and isn't allowed to do anything.  Sarandon plays a single waitress whose idea it is to take a little vacation together.  Davis is so afraid her husband won't let her go that she leaves without even asking him.
So Davis and Sarandon don't get very far in their old T-Bird convertible before Davis wants to stop and have a little fun at a roadside bar and dance hall.  They stop and Davis gets asked to dance by a guy she finds interesting.  As the night winds down, Sarandon tells Davis she's going to the ladies room and then they are leaving.  Davis goes outside to get fresh air as she is hot and very drunk, her dance partner goes outside with her alone.  The guy advances on her hard and she says no.  He doesn't take no for an answer and is ripping off her clothes and holding her down when Sarandon comes around the corner with a gun to the guy's neck to let Davis go.
This is the point where they stop being rational people and begin to be criminals on the run.  The guy lets her go but calls both of them a lot of derogatory words and this sets Sarandon off for some reason so bad, she kills him with a single bullet to the chest.  Then they leave and both freak out in the car trying to figure out what to do.  Sarandon believes they cannot go to the police now because she thinks no one will believe that the guy was about to rape Davis.  Davis wants to go to the cops, but doesn't because her friend says no.
I won't tell you the plot after this point, but they both commit a few crimes and end up getting into major trouble where they will spend the rest of their life in prison if they are not executed for their crimes.

I think both of these women could have been lesbians in love with each other and just suppressing it, or the editing was poor at certain parts to make it look that way, I'm really not sure.

Either way, not a great movie and I say skip it, you're not missing a thing.

I give it 2 out of 5 for being ok, but forgettable.