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Salt Lake City Weekly: Driving Force

Journalist Becky Aikman explores the rough road to creating the classic Thelma & Louise.

On May 24, 1991, Becky Aikman was in the audience for the opening night of Thelma & Louise, an under-the-radar comedy-drama about two women on an outlaw road trip, which was opening opposite macho big-budget action movies like Hudson Hawk and Backdraft. "There hadn't been much marketing or publicity about it," Aikman recalls, "so I didn't know what to expect. And it completely blew my mind, because there was nothing else like it at the time. I didn't fully appreciate until later how improbable it was."



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