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Drive-Away Dolls 2024

Movie · 84 min · English · February 22, 2024

Directed by Ethan CoenWritten by Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke

Starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Samsara Leela Vett, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo

A 2024 crime comedy road film, Drive-Away Dolls, alternatively titled Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes, is directed by Ethan Coen who co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Tricia Cooke. Tricia Cooke also served as editor and uncredited co-director. The film was produced by Robert Graf along with Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.

Set in 1999, the story follows Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as two lesbian best friends traveling through the Eastern United States, becoming entangled in a criminal plot. Supporting roles are played by Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon. This marks Ethan Coen's first narrative feature without his brother Joel; previously he directed the 2022 documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind.

The film premiered in Australia on February 22, 2024 and was released in the United States the next day by Focus Features. Critics offered mixed responses. Drive-Away Dolls begins a planned "lesbian B-movie trilogy" by Coen and Cooke, followed by Honey Don't!, also starring Qualley, in 2025.