Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke give sexploitation cinema a queer spin in 'Drive-Away Dolls'

Scripts of all kinds sit in the drawers of Ethan Coen’s home, some to be returned to, some forever abandoned. When writing with his brother Joel over many years, the absurd narrative paths they’d venture down would inevitably lead to strange mental roadblocks.

“Sometimes partial scripts would stop in mysterious places,” Coen says. “‘Fargo’ we started writing many, many years before we made it and then we stopped at page 70 with ‘Carl is humping the escort.’ Then the rest of that page is blank. OK, what happens next?”

One script that sat dormant for many years was a screenplay Coen wrote not with his brother, but Tricia Cooke, Coen’s wife and an editor of many of the Coens’ best films. The script, titled “Drive-Away Dykes,” was nearly produced two decades ago. A lesbian road-trip