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Apr 2023
1h 9m

Thelma & Louise (Erotic 90’s, Part 4)

Karina Longworth
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One of the most controversial movies of the 1990s, Thelma & Louise pushed every hot button of the new decade: date rape, sexual harassment, the failure of the feminist movement to create real change for the working class, and how pissed off women were, or were not, entitled to be about all of the above. Though it made more noise as a media phenomenon tha ... Show More
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