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No. Thelma & Louise is based on script by American screenwriter Callie Khouri.

A green 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible.

The DVD shows an alternate ending where Thelma & Louise drive off the cliff and the car goes sailing into the air, just like in the regular ending. The scene then continues to see the car near the bottom of the canyon. The car falls behind a large rock. The final scene shows a car tooling down a long highway in the desert, but there's so much dust flying behind it that you cannot actually see the car. The song playing is B.B. King's "You Better Not Look Down." Viewers who have seen the alternate version have interpreted it three different ways: (1) It's not Thelma & Louise's car, (2) Thelma & Louise and their car somehow survived the fall, and/or (3) it's meant to show that Thelma & Louise's spirits live on. Director Ridley Scott explains that it is indeed Thelma and Louise's car, shown as a symbolic shot of their "final escape," which is death to every living creature.

Road trips movies by women are scarce, but there is one. In Leaving Normal (1992), two women take off on a roadtrip from Normal, Wyoming to Palmer Valley, Alaska.