A film follows a women when it head call at Louise's 1966 Thunderbird for a 2-day risky venture which starts awfully then again understands the children vary from either sportsmen of circumstance into icons of feminism.

A film shares storyline & ocular elements by having more itinerant picture, particularly a 1979 movie Messidor by Alain Tanner.

Khouri won an Academy Award for a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen; Scott, Davis, Sarandon, cinematographer Adrian Biddle, and film editor Thom Noble also won Oscar nominations. the film besides won Scott nominations for a César Award for Best Foreign Film and a DGA Award.

A British Film Institute published a book (ISBN 0851708099) all about a film in 2000, as the share of a Modern Classics series.

Cast
Susan Sarandon as Louise Sawyer Geena Davis as Thelma Dickerson Harvey Keitel as Hal Slocumb Michael Madsen as Jimmy Christopher McDonald as Darryl Dickerson Brad Pitt as J.D. Stephen Tobolowsky as Max Timothy Carnhart as Harlan Marco St. John as Truck driver

Trivia
Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn wanted to make a flick together & one of the scripts it considered was Thelma & Louise but they decided on Death Becomes Her. A so struggling actor George Clooney auditioned five days for Ridley Scott for the part of J.D. that section attend Brad Pitt. The area of Thelma & Louise were to be played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster but pitching took so long that Pfeiffer and Foster were no longer available. Cher was offered the a share of Louise however turned it down. In a sequence in which Darryl slips & go over a builder's the diapers when he wwhen going away for function was unscripted, as Christopher McDonald genuinely lost his footing. Despite this he remained inside character & yelled at a workmen & turn back. Ridley Scott apparently liked the effect, so it remains in the film.