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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gus Van Sant released in USA on 13 may 1994 with Uma Thurman

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Released in USA 13 may 1994
Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Romantic comedy,    Fantasy,    Romance,    Western
Rating43% 2.1528552.1528552.1528552.1528552.152855

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film based on Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant (credited as Gus Van Sant, Jr.) and starred an ensemble cast led by Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, and Rain Phoenix. Robbins himself was the narrator. The soundtrack was sung entirely by k.d. lang. The film was dedicated to the late River Phoenix.

Synopsis

The film tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation (she would not call it a defect) giving her enormously large thumbs. The film is a transgressive romp, covering topics from homosexuality and free love to drug use and political rebellion to animal rights and body odor and religions. Sissy makes the most of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker. Her travels take her to New York, where she becomes a model for a transvestite feminine hygiene products mogul, known as The Countess, who introduces her to the man whom she will marry, an asthmatic, staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche. In her later travels, she encounters, among many others, a sexually open cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean and an itinerant escapee from the Japanese internment camps happily mislabeled "The Chink".

Actors

Uma Thurman

(Sissy Hankshaw)Lorraine Bracco

(Delores Del Ruby)Angie Dickinson

(Miss Adrian)Pat Morita

(The Chink)Keanu Reeves

(Julian Gitche)
And :
John Hurt
Rain Phoenix
Roseanne Barr
Ed Begley Jr.
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