which doubled as the Grand Canyon for the famous climax of “Thelma & Louise” (1991). The park was also used in John Ford’s “Fort Apache” (1948) and for Tom Cruise’s rock-climbing stunt ...

At the end of the 1991 film "Thelma and Louise," when the main characters drive off a cliff (meant to be the Grand Canyon) to their certain deaths, they're driving off Fossil Point. While this ...

In an era when female empowerment was hardly addressed, let alone championed in the movies, 1991's "Thelma & Louise ... off a cliff near the Grand Canyon as they flee authorities.