Yes, that’s right, we are using the original title. Drive Away Dykes or as it was stupidly re-christened by the movie studio, Drive Away Dolls is the product of legendary director Ethan Coen (who with brother Joel, created the likes of Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O’ Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country For Old Men and many more) working with producing partner Tricia Cooke, doing what a Coen does best, a superlative comedic crime caper.
When the free spirited Jamie (Margaret Qualley – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Poor Things) breaks up with her girlfriend (Beanie Feldstein – Ladybird, Booksmart) she decides it’s time to take her demure (possibly uptight) housemate Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan – Hala, Bad Education) on a road trip to Tallahassee. But things do not go as planned when the two inadvertently get tangled up in a ludicrous criminal plot that involves everyone from Pedro Pascal to Colman Domingo to Matt Damon. This quickfire little gem of a star studded queer road trip movie combines both that familiar off beat Coen Brothers feeling we all know and love as well as delivering a fresh, slickly delivered, cheerfully trashy B-movie vibe, with lots of goofiness and lots of sex.