Thelma And Louise (1991)

Two best friends, Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) set out for a weekend getaway in the mountains. But a stop at a country and western bar turns ugly when a man (Timothy Carhart) attempts to rape Thelma and is shot and killed by Louise. Directed by Ridley Scott (ALIEN). There had been a smattering of mainstream feminist movies in the 1970s (ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN etc.) but nothing like the controversy and attention that made THELMA AND LOUISE one of the most talked about movies of the year. It wasn't a small intellectual film but a female road film that had as much action as a Charles Bronson movie and encompassed the anger, rage and frustration toward a male driven society that still treated women as second class citizens. While many feminists decried the violence in the film, audiences cheered the two women as they blew up a sexist trucker's vehicle. I think it's Sarandon's best performance and Geena Davis gives a trajectory to her ditzy housewife's journey of discovery till she realizes she can never go back to the way it was. In many ways, a landmark film. With Brad Pitt (in his breakthrough role), Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald and Lucinda Jenney.