Ethan Coen and his brother Joel have created and perfected the genre of the droll macabre drama. Ethan's' first foray as a solo director is a total disaster with sporadic moments that show glimmers from what make the Coen brother's films so memorable. However, these flashes of dark comedy do not a full movie make and DRIVE AWAY DOLLS is a train wreck of a film that is a total disaster. The movie is a lesbian buddy roadtrip/crime thriller minus thrills, chills, laughs. It's a hodgepodge of gaffs that miss the mark. Don't fault the cast which provided star quality performances from Margaret Qualley as Jamie, a lesbian on the nonstop lookout for getting laid and her lover Sukie (an under used Beanie Feldstein). Jamie's voracious sexually appetite matches her unflappability in all situations. She takes an assured lead in a road trip from Philly to Tallahassee with her platonic lesbian friend Marian (a deadpan Geraldine Viswanathan) after she ended her live-in relationship with Sukie, a no nonsense cop. Jamie and Marian rent a car which contains, unbeknownst to them, a decapitated head and phallic head castings being transported by a mob boss. The mixup of the car rental pickup is the start of a journey that goes wrong for the bickering, goony gangsters, right for Jamie and Marian and terribly wrong for the audience. Jamie and Marian find their platonic friendship becoming much more as they rotate around a girl's sport team's make-out party. They also find use for the booty found in their trunk. Sukie,
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