Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Name: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Western
Released: May 24, 1994
Rating: 28
Cast: Lorraine Bracco, Uma Thurman

1994

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Fine Line Features | Release Date: May 24, 1994 | R

Starring: Lorraine Bracco, Uma Thurman

Summary: Sissy (Thurman), a young woman with large thumbs hitchhikes across the country and meets a group of cowgirls lead by Bonanza Jellybean (Phoenix).

Director: Gus Van Sant

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Western

Rating: R

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Michael Wilmington

The movie contains its moments, charms and felicities-even its sharp stings of pleasure and pain. [20 May 1994]

Marjorie Baumgarten

Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, the movie does not work, though it's difficult to sort out the “what is” from the “what was” and “what might have been.” Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

While the results are both cheerful and occasionally inventive, they can't hold a candle to his previous features; too many jokey asides and cameos - not to mention an overdose of plot - keep getting in the way. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Loaded as it is with undeveloped notions about feminism and individuality, nothing about it is really memorable except the appealing musicality of the fine k.d. lang/Ben Mink score, which deserves better. [20 May 1994]

Jay Carr

Van Sant winds up with disconnected, dispirited pieces that never come together and lift off the screen with a whoosh of sly high spirits. [20 May 1994]

Roger Ebert

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is one of the more empty, pointless, baffling films I can remember, and the experience of viewing it is an exercise in nothingness. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Cowgirls, a flaky-surreal adaptation of Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist hipster road novel, finds the director of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho" lost in the ozone of his own private whimsies. Read full review

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Trailesque

Feb 3, 2017

This is fun to watch, and it does bring Tom Robbins' humor and storytelling to life onscreen, which is nice - but it also demonstrates how hard it is to do that successfully. There are lot of nice shots and loony laughs, and I could watch Uma all day. Despite the big name cast, a fairThis is fun to watch, and it does bring Tom Robbins' humor and storytelling to life onscreen, which is nice - but it also demonstrates how hard it is to do that successfully. There are lot of nice shots and loony laughs, and I could watch Uma all day. Despite the big name cast, a fair amount of it falls flat. This got me thinking that Robbins' unique prose is the real secret sauce of his work, not his wacky plots and left-of-center characters.… Expand

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