Thelma and Louise/Something to Talk About: Screenplays

by Callie Khouri

Overview

When "Thelma & Louise" opened in 1991, it was greeted with acclaim and controversy, quickly earning first-time screenwriter Callie Khouri a reputation as one of the only writers of real movie roles for women. She lived up to expectations with "Something to Talk About, " which won praise for its originality and authenticity. Published here in one volume, these two screenplays gives us an oppurtunity to savor the work of a groundbreaking author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802134622
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/12/1996
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	613,811
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Provocative, poignant and heartbreakingly funny... Callie Khouri has an exceptional ear and an inviable understanding of character. Her gritty, raunchy dialogue has the welcome tang of authenticity."

Los Angeles Times

"Their adventures, while tinged with the fatalism that attends any crime spree, have the thrilling, life-affirming energy for which the best road movies are remembered. This time there's a difference: This story's daring anti-heroes are beautiful, interesting women... A sparkling screenplay by the first-time writer Callie Khouri."

The New York Times

"I don't know why it took so long, but this is the first feminist buddy-buddy movie, or at least the first one that matters... The movie, coming at a time when Hollywood has just about abandoned such essentials as experience and character, is like a gasp of pure oxygen in a vacuum-pumped room... A first-rate debut."

New York