Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Actor: Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Uma ThurmanBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Movie Review: Ha, ha! Ho, ho! Hee, hee!
Summary: 5 Stars
Adapted from Tom Robbins' book (and narrated by him), the story revolves around an empowered and curious, young twenty-nine year old Sissy (Uma Thurman) who has been born with enormous thumbs ~ which she uses to hitchhike all across the world meeting a strange and even surreal array of thought provoking and humorous characters....until she finds her true home ~ amongst the free-thinking cowgirls. Philisophical, daring, funny and fun are the first thoughts that come to mind when considering this creatively inquisitive independent film. Much like in "Alice Through the Looking Glass," thru characters, circumstances and cleverly worded metaphors, the meaning of life is challenged as well as the meaning of being Women and identity itself....with a question of sexuality and society on the side. I love this movie, even though Uma's accent isn't thee greatest I've ever heard ~ after the rhythmn and the adventure of the movie grabs you, it's no longer an oddity but a missed voice when the movie's over. Oh, and did I mention the movie's charming, heady soundtrack was performed by none other than K.D. Lang? Lovely and dreamy.
You're missing out if you miss this cult classic flick!
Summary of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
From the director of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho comes a star-studded comedy based on the best-selling novel by Tom Robbins. The cowgirls on the Rubber Rose Ranch are staging a rebellion. Delores Del Ruby (Bracco) is leading the uproarious uprising, but it?s really Sissy Hankshaw (Thurman) who?s providing the spiritual leadership for this rag-tag bunch of female bandits. With her marvelous thumbs and her funky brand of femininity, she shatters all male chauvinist illusions and boldly goes where no woman has gone before.If someone ever put together a what-were-they-thinking top 10, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues would surely make the list. Based on Tom Robbins's '70s ode to freedom, whooping cranes, and ambisexuality, this Gus Van Sant film sat on the shelf for almost a year before its brief release. More of a curiosity than anything else, it tells the convoluted story of Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman), the world's greatest hitchhiker by virtue of her mammoth, um, thumbs. She falls in with a lesbian collective at a dude ranch and, well, the rest is kind of a mess. Kind of? Let's say it's a monumental mess, one of those films that's like a 25-car pileup on the interstate that you have to stop and look at, just to figure out what people like Keanu Reeves, Roseanne, John Hurt, and Angie Dickinson are doing there. A great score by k.d. lang, by the way. --Marshall Fine
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