Thelma & Louise starts off as a simple girlie weekend away for stressed-out waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) and stressed-out housewife Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), but after an altercation in a redneck bar with the over-friendly Harlan (Timothy Carhart), after which Louise produces a gun, the girls find themselves on the run for murder.
It's a classic road movie and as the girls drive through the desert they find themselves on the run from cop Hal Slocumb (Harvey Keitel), his superior Max (Stephen Tobolowsky) and while Louise is missed by her other-half Jimmy (the effortlessly-cool Michael Madsen), the same cannot be said for Thelma's husband Darryl (Christopher McDonald), but at least Thelma finds some solace in hitch-hiker J.D. (Brad Pitt in an early screen performance), until he steals all their money.