Flying solo, Joel Coen went the prestige route and made Macbeth. Brother Ethan, working with his wife Tricia Cooke, plotted a different direction. Drive-Away Dolls just wants to show you a good time at the movies, as lesbian lovers Jamie and Marian (Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathen) take off on a roadtrip to Tallahassee, only to find a suitcase full of trouble in the back of their rental car… As Indiewire’s Alison Foreman put it, “It’s wildly endearing, decidedly shaggy, and gay as fuck.”
Coen and Cooke have fashioned a zippy piece of trash cinema so unencumbered with ambition or pretension that it’s the perfect pick-me-up…
Tom Shone, Sunday Times
A hypodermic needle shot of absurdity… a Nineties-set, enthusiastically horny but also quite tender queering of the crime capers that made the Coens’ name.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent
Ethan Coen
Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, Matt Damon
USA
2024
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke
Cinematography
Ari Wegner
Editor
Tricia Cooke
Original Music
Carter Burwell
Production Design
Yong Ok Lee
Art Director
W. Haley Ho, Gregory A. Weimerskirch
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