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Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Long Marriage Shaped Their Lesbian Road-Trip Movie

How Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen collaborated on Drive-Away Dolls, a lesbian road trip movie decades in the making.

Courtesy of Working Title / Focus Features Though Coen is the film’s credited director, Cooke was effectively co-director as well as co-writer, and Drive-Away Dolls draws heavily on her own experiences in lesbian bars in the late-1990s and early 2000s. The supporting cast is a Coen-worthy coterie of actors including Colman Domingo as a crime boss; Matt Damon as an evil senator with a dildo problem; Bill Camp as a witless car-rental agent; and Joey Slotnick and C. J. Wilson as bumbling criminals. The distributor also released 1994’s comedy Go Fish, directed and co-written by Rose Troche and starring co-writer Guinevere Turner, which was made on a small budget and earned its money back many times over.

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