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Drive-Away Dolls<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Focus\/Action-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (crude sexual content, full nudity, language, some violent content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Ethan Coen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Carter Burwell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Ari Wegner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 23, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, Matt Damon, Joey Slotnick, C.J. Wilson, Annie Gonzalez, Connie Jackson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Drive-Away Dolls<\/strong> is the second movie this month with cult film potential, the first being the largely ignored Lisa Frankenstein. Like the comedy-horror teen romance, Drive-Away Dolls<\/strong> is a lot of things. It\u2019s a road trip picture, a darkly comic crime thriller and a lesbian love story. Directed by one half of the Coen Brothers (Ethan), it\u2019s pretty bizarre. It\u2019s also the best movie I\u2019ve seen this month.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Set at the tail end of 1999 when Y2K fever was high, the plot centers on a briefcase taken from a mysterious guy (Pascal, The Mandalorian) by mobsters who also relieve him of his head. It ends up in the trunk of a car that ends up in the possession of two friends, free-spirited Jamie (Qualley, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and uptight Marian (Viswanathan, Blockers), taking a road trip to Tallahassee to clear their heads. Jamie\u2019s just been dumped by her girlfriend Sukie (Feldstein, Booksmart) for cheating on her. Looking to get out of Dodge for a while, she talks her friend Marian into going on the road in a driveaway car. For the uninformed, that\u2019s a car picked up at Point A and driven to Point B by another driver.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Due to a misunderstanding on the part of the service owner Curlie (Camp, Sound of Freedom), Jamie and Marian unknowingly get the car containing the briefcase. It was supposed to go to a couple of goons, taciturn Flint (Wilson, Manchester by the Sea) and chatty Arliss (Slotnick, Plane), working for crime boss Chief (Domingo, The Color Purple). It\u2019s valuable cargo and Chief needs to get it back ASAP. He sends his guys to chase down the girls and retrieve it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0While the bad guys do their things, the girls do theirs. Marian, true to character, wants to go straight to Tallahassee so she can enjoy some bird watching with her favorite aunt. Jamie just wants to have fun, stopping at every tourist trap, BBQ joint and sleazy lesbian bar along the way. It\u2019s a rocky journey at first and it doesn\u2019t get any smoother once the ladies discover the case hidden in the truck along with a bucket containing Pascal\u2019s head. They have no idea what they\u2019ve stumbled onto….. yet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Unlike Pulp Fiction, we do find out what\u2019s in the briefcase and it\u2019s in perfect keeping with the film\u2019s twisted and perverted sensibility. I wouldn\u2019t dream of revealing the contents, but I will say it\u2019s somehow connected to an ultra-conservative politician played by Matt Damon. That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say on this matter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I can definitely see Drive-Away Dolls<\/strong> becoming a queer cult classic. It\u2019s a fun ride at a zippy, energetic 84 minutes. It\u2019s droll in a dark way with a hint of danger lurking at the edges. It has the same smart, goofball spirit as Burn After Reading with its oddball characters, bizarre situations and trippy, psychedelic dream sequences (featuring an uncredited Miley Cyrus as the dream girl). It\u2019s extremely open with its sexuality, never holding back when it comes to depicting such activity. There\u2019s also a semi-sweet love story about two friends realizing they could be more than friends if Marian could let go of her inhibitions and Jamie could be more grounded.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The cast does a tremendous job. Qualley is great as the more adventurous of the pair, always willing to try anything at least once. She takes great joy in most everything she does whether it\u2019s kissing a stranger or pleasuring herself with a dildo. Viswanathan is even better as Marian. Her deadpan manner is one of the film\u2019s greatest highs. In early scene, she deals with a flirtatious male co-worker by constantly correcting his grammar. This is a girl who reads Henry James for fun. The two actresses have amazing chemistry, but Beanie Feldstein nearly steals the show as Jamie\u2019s furious ex, a cop who gets pulled into their escapades. Domingo show quiet danger as the main bad guy while Wilson and Slotnick make a nifty mismatched pair.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Coen, who wrote the screenplay with wife Tricia Cooke, does a great job on his first outing without sibling Joel. It\u2019s so strange and warped, I can\u2019t not love it. Drive-Away Dolls<\/strong>, jokingly referred to as Drive-Away Dykes in the closing credits, is right up there with last year\u2019s queer high school comedy Bottoms. Sure, it\u2019s not for everybody. It\u2019s definitely not going to play in Peoria, but it\u2019s not for them now, is it? Its true audience knows who they are.<\/p>\r\n Drive-Away Dolls (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Focus\/Action-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (crude sexual content, full nudity, language, some violent content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Ethan Coen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Carter Burwell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Ari Wegner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 23, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, Matt Damon, Joey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-suspense-thrillers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Drive-Away-Dolls-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Drive-Away-Dolls-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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