Thelma & Louise (1991 Ridley Scott)

Written by Callie Khouri, her debut screenplay which won the Oscar, perhaps for its timely pro-women stance - the only problem is the ending, which sort of has to go that way, but is unsatisfying.

It's a sort of road movie / film noir (Michael Madsen in particular would seem at home in the latter). Has too much music over it. Photographed in Panavision by Adrian Biddle (Oscar nominated, as were Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis). Harvey Keitel is the sympathetic lawman. With Christopher McDonald, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Pitt.

Geena pulls off the politest gas station hold up in history.