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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

New Line / Year: 1994

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Synopsis

Gus Van Sant's infamous box office disaster isn't exactly faithful to the book, but the lesbian affair between Uma Thurman and Rain Phoenix makes it well worthwhile.

3 Reasons To buy this film

Directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk).
Uma Thurman in a lesbian scene!
Although considered a commercial failure, must-see for anyone who read the book.

Review

A disappointingly vapid and lifeless misfire, this attempt to capture the hippie-dippy effervescence of Tom Robbins' 1976 novel completely fails to come to cinematic life. Thurman plays the pleasant if vacuous Sissy Hankshaw, a young beauty who is blessed/cursed with abnormally large thumbs and who lives the free life of the road.

Encouraged by "The Countess" (an over-the-top campy and faggy Hurt) to visit his dude ranch, Sissy soon becomes embroiled in a cowgirl uprising headed by the "charismatic" Bonanza Jellybean (the catatonic Phoenix). The film's only real "high point" is the psychedelic country score by lesbian chanteuse k.d. lang.

Though pretty much a failure on every level, and saddled by its attempts to be both post-modern camp and politically and sexually relevant, Cowgirls is nonetheless easy to watch and does sport moments of fun.