Reasons to Watch Drive-Away Dolls (2024):
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as Jamie and Marian, in the 90s Lesbian Road Trip Adventure Crime Comedy of Our (My) Dreams
It was delightfully absurd! I love a movie that is off-kilter at every turn!!! The stakes are escalating but rather than suspenseful, it is snappy and spirited
If you have ever wanted to watch a crime movie where the criminals are so incredibly inept at committing crimes that they have to keep pleading with lesbians they've just met to help them, this could be the movie for you
If you have ever wanted to watch a movie where for every scene involving violence there is also a longer lesbian sex scene, this could be the movie for you
Curlie, the Drive-Away Rental Dealer, who is decidedly in a different genre of movie, and who doesn't like people calling him Curlie (his actual name) because it's too familiar, deserves his own shout-out
This movie was exactly the right length!! It didn't drag, it told the story exactly in as much time as it needed (1h24min)
There is only one character in this movie who is based on a real person, and while I could not have predicted who that would be, they were once described with the phrase, "Someone like [them] should be in the Smithsonian."
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, who are married, in a polymarous relationship and the latter of whom is a lesbian, directed and wrote this self-described B movie and have been trying to get it made for almost 20 years, which is incredible dedication
Quotes like: "Take the wall dildo." "It's your dildo, Suzanne."
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Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
Written by: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke
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Pedro & Ethan Coen on the "Drive-Away Dolls" set
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Being so real this is the best news I’ve ever heard in my life
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Going to see Drive-Away Dolls with my sister this afternoon and I think Ethan is already my new favorite between the Coen Brothers:
He's in a thirty-plus year polyamorous marriage with self-identified lesbian Tricia Cooke, who is the brothers' assistant editor and Ethan's co-writer on Drive-Away Dolls.
He describes himself and his brother's perspective as "stupid and straight", which is part of why Drive-Away Dolls is a solo effort.
He describes the kind of movies he wants to make on his own as being "low brow" as opposed to the "high brow" pictures he makes with his brother.
He & his wife's original title for "Drive-Away Dolls", a very openly queer crime film, was "Drive-Away Dykes".
They wrote the original draft of the film 20 years ago, when a movie about lesbians on a cross-country caper with hella sex scenes would emphatically not have been released by Universal Pictures.
I respect that his brother Joel is married to Frances Goddamn McDormand and directed Denzel Goddamn Washington as MacBeth for his first solo feature, I do. But weird, hooked into queer culture, and low brow? Ethan's on my wavelength.
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