Empire Australasia

THELMA & LOUISE

“TO ME, THEY got away,” says Callie Khouri, reminiscing about a light-blue Ford T-Bird soaring in slow motion over the Grand Canyon, one of popular cinema’s most radical farewells.

Yearning to write a screenplay, one night Khouri pulled into her Nashville drive and thought, “Two women go on a crime

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