Hear Me Roar
Jeff Giles BOYS ON THE SIDE Like a lot of women out there, Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), Robin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Holly (Drew Barrymore) really want to be Thelma and Louise. They know their lives are dulland confining, so they hit the road in search of liberation, bags packed with the requisite cute sunglasses, soul tunes and toenail polish. ““Boys on the Side’’ owes such a debt to ““Thelma & Louise’’ thatit includes a subplot about an unintentional murder the cops will never believe was self-defense; when Whoopi says, ““I am not going over a cliff for you two,’’ it’s straight homage....