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Article: Leaving Normal.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 11, 1992
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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, but this attempt to write about two engagingly oddball women, to whom quaint but not all that ...