Drive-Away Dolls is an LGBTQ comedy mainly featuring lesbians.
Ethan Coen can direct but he can't take a film like this and turn it into something interesting. It is obvious that this film was written from the mindset of being a victim. It tries so hard to be Fargo which really just cements that Coen has lost his touch. He's not writing for general audiences, he's writing for modern audiences. The problem is that "modern audiences" don't go to the theater. His quick dialogue is still there but it comes across as jarring with all the verbiage.
Margaret Qualley puts on an accent and while sometimes it comes across as charming, sometimes it comes across as trying too hard to be hick. She's supposed to be a Texan but doesn't act or sound like any Texan I've met. She's a good actress, but her character in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was much better written as here she seems so one-dimensional. While I was disappointed in this film, I'm still excited for her in Kinds of Kindness which should be out now.
While Qualley plays the free spirit, Geraldine Viswanathan plays the more uptight lesbian. She does a pretty good job acting as it seems to be an improvement over when she was in Blockers. She's supposed to be in the Thunderbolts movie but that movie I'm totally worried will flop.
The film reeks of virtue-signaling and really doesn't have much to say or entertain. Result: D
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