Official Trailer
Our Review
- Pedro Pascal, Matt Damon, Margaret Qualley, Annie Gonzalez.
- March 15th 2024
- Ethan Coen
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan play best friends who accidentally drive away in a rental car meant for criminals.
After years and years of directing films with his brother Joel Coen, Ethan Coen has released his first solo narrative feature Drive-Away Dolls.
The comedy caper, written by Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke, stars Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as Jamie and Marian, two lesbian besties who decide to take a road trip from Philadelphia to Florida.
Due to a misunderstanding at the rental car depot, they are given a vehicle intended for a trio of criminals and drive away with a suspicious suitcase in the boot.
While Drive-Away Dolls looks like a fun crime caper, it’s actually more of a romantic comedy, with the cat-and-mouse chase as a wacky subplot. The potential is there for a wild, entertaining ride, but it is tonally all over the place and the script is frustratingly undercooked and not funny enough.
To maintain the bizarre vibe, Coen peppers odd psychedelic dream sequences throughout the film, even though they serve no real purpose,...