SummarySissy (Thurman), a young woman with large thumbs hitchhikes across the country and meets a group of cowgirls lead by Bonanza Jellybean (Phoenix).
Directed By:Gus Van Sant
Written By:Tom Robbins, Gus Van Sant
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
28
User score
Generally Favorable
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
28
6% Positive
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The movie contains its moments, charms and felicities-even its sharp stings of pleasure and pain. [20 May 1994]
50
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.”
40
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.
30
One of the many problems with Gus Van Sant's tortured, worked-over Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is that Sissy Hankshaw talks like a novel, and a dated one at that.
25
Writer/director Gus Van Sant, who's built his reputation on the romantic decadence of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho," completely misses the poetry and the irony of the book. [20 May 1994]
12
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.
0
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.6
57% Positive
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4 Ratings
Feb 3, 2017
5
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 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.
Production Company:
- New Line Cinema
- Fourth Vision
Release Date:May 24, 1994
Duration:1 h 46 m
Rating:R
Tagline:There have been many great drivers but only one great passenger.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
