Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

I didn't get to see the whole movie,I just happened apon it and never heard of it.I thought "wow!this is a weird movie!" I couldn't stop watching it while trying to figure it out.This movie was very funny and odd,and I... Full review

you should read the book. I wouldn't call it unfilmable, but it's certainly not a James Patterson or an Ira Levin novel. A girl born with large thumbs becomes a hitchhiker, a model, and a lobbyist for whopping cranes with... Full review

a family of six of all ages 12 to 74 tried to finish it,the lady with the guns must rather go back to her carrier from the chorus line as performing soo much amateuristic,the history is this if you accept it,poor... Full review

After reading all the comments on this film I guess I was expecting on par with plan 9 from outer space or something. Perhaps it was my low expectations going into it but I actually found the quirky style to... Full review

I read Tom Robbins' EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES as a teenager. I loved every word. It was sexy, funny, and full of glamorous scenery and beautiful writing. But when I saw the movie, I could not believe what a... Full review

Uma Thurman plays Sissy, a young woman with a gypsy spirit (and freakishly large thumbs) who hitchhikes cross-country, eventually finding her true place amongst a group of peyote-enlightened cowgirls on a ranch devoted to preserving the Whooping Crane; Rain(bow) Phoenix... Full review

I absolutely love all of Tom Robbins books, so I was very excited and interested to see a movie made after one of his books. I knew that there would be no way that the movie would capture even half... Full review

I could not agree less with the rating that was given to this movie, and I believe this is a sample of how short minded most of spectators are all over the world. Really... Are you forgetting that Cinema used... Full review

We actually watched this twice in the theater because we could not believe how bad it was the first time. Maybe we'd missed something... nope, what's missing was missed from the beginning of preproduction. I actually went back to Robbin's... Full review

I love movies. I love independent efforts and major studio productions. I love films with stars and I love those featuring unknowns. I love dramas, comedies, action-adventures, science fiction, mysteries, westerns, any genre except horror. I love foreign films as... Full review

lang, the sexy Uma Thurman perfectly cast in the role of Sissy Hankshaw and the voice-over sequences by Robbins himself..... ... Full Review

Like a traffic accident or a Dan Quayle presidential bid, the spectacle of a truly great director making a truly bad movie exerts a certain disreputable intrigue. The single worst decision made by Van Sant in filming Even Cowgirls Get the Blues may have been choosing to adapt the book in the first place. ... Full Review

Despite a promising start, Cowgirls is one of the most boring movies of all time, a ridiculous stew of mysticism, flat satire, and whimsy..... ... Full Review

One of the more peculiar aspects of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" is that the movie presents us with notions that might barely have been daring 30 years ago, and expects us to be amazed today. The movie was set to open shortly after, but was pulled by its distributor for "more editing. ... Full Review

Early on, there's a cute montage scene of Thurman practicing her arcane art, causing buses, biplanes, even shooting stars to screech to a halt for her. And Robbins's loopy narrative descriptions are stuffed awkwardly into characters' mouths as dialogue. ... Full Review

I didn't remember much about Even Cowgirls Get The Blues from my first viewing, beyond its tragic dearth of hot lesbian action, but I do remember being mightily impressed by Rain Phoenix as Bonanza Jellybean, Thurman's love interest and the... ... Full Article

New releases this month gave me an excuse to reunite with a couple of authors I enjoyed as a much younger person. One reunion was wonderful. ... Full Article

Tom Robbins is all about sex. From phallic-fingered heroine Sissy Hackshaw in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues to modern-day Jezebel Ellen-Cherry in Skinny Legs and All , Robbins's ability to build exotic and out-there tales around the oldest and most... ... Full Article

U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures Following the disastrous Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (my selection for the worst film of 1994), it's a safe bet that Gus Van Sant's next move had to be a proverbial "step in the right direction." ... Full Article

Published: Tuesday, May 24, 1994 12:00 a.m. MDT Trying to film an allegorical novel like Tom Robbins' "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" is probably an impossible task, but screenwriter/director/co-editor Gus Van Sant Jr. ("My Own Private Idaho," "Drugstore Cowboy") may... ... Full Article

Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. ... Full Article