Leaving Normal.

National Review | May 11, 1992| | Copyright

Female buddy pictures are getting to be the thing: Thelma and Louise and Fried Green Tomatoes are now followed by Leaving Normal, which, like the first of the above, is both a road and a buddy movie, minus the exaggeration and violence. I wish I could report that this restraint made it better. There are screenwriters to whom honest understatement is of no help. I cannot say whether in the case of Edward Solomon, whose first solo writing venture this is (the two Bill and Ted films, which I missed, were collaborations), dishonest overstatement would constitute an improvement, ...

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