Now, Geena Davis is looking back on the backlash the film faced before audiences proved the doubters wrong.
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film follows female friends whose weekend getaway goes wrong.
The film, which also starred a young Brad Pitt, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen and Christopher McDonald, went on to receive largely positive reviews.
In a year-end film ranking by the Washington Post, Thelma & Louise landed second behind The Silence of the Lambs as the best film of the year. It went on to earn five Academy Award nominations and took home the award for Best Original Screenplay. It was later ranked No. 78 on the American Film Institute's Top 100 Most Triumphant Films of All Time.
"I mean, I thought I was making a cowboy movie with women in trucks instead of guys with horses," Sarandon told AFI in 2003. "I don't think we understood how we were kind of backing into this heroic territory that before that had pretty much been owned by white heterosexual men of a certain age."
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