Leaving Normal
I enjoyed the movie Leaving Normal, I think that over all it was a good female road film. There were a few things that were dated about it, but that just made it all the more enjoyable. My favorite thing about this movie was the character of Marianne. She was someone that you just wanted to grab and shake some sense into, but at the same time you couldn't help but love. She becomes the root of the family. Taking care of the two boys and really trying to build a home for the four of them, really trying to make things different this time around. She is the ultamate opptimast. To the point were she's almost even pesamistic in some cases. She partially epitomizes the female frontier spirit, keeping the family together while trying to keep herself together.
My favorite road movie of the semester was Thelma and Louise. While I enjoyed almost all of the movies we watched during the course of the semester, none of them quite captured the American road for the female the way that Thelma and Louise did. What women wouldn't want to have that kind of gumption and fearless when taking on the road? I doubt that there will ever be another female road movie quite like Thelma and Louise.