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 ...

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.

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 ...