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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1993

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 92 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: romantic comedy

director: Gus Van Sant

Score: 3 / 10

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama western 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.

Plot

Sissy Hankshaw is a woman born with a mutation (she would not call it a defect) giving her enormously large thumbs. Sissy makes the most of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker. Her travels eventually take her to New York City, where she becomes a model for a homosexual feminine hygiene products mogul, known as "The Countess". A few years later, he introduces her to his "beauty ranch", the Rubber Rose Ranch. The main plot revolves around the cowgirls who work at the ranch after they violently take over and drug the endangered whooping cranes that nest along the lake on their land, making the once migratory birds stay. The cowgirls end up in a showdown with government agencies because the cranes will not leave the ranch and the cowgirls refuse to allow the men on the ranch to take the cranes. Sissy and the ranch leader, Bonanza Jellybean, have a brief love affair. After a fatal shootout between the cowgirls and the various agencies, the cranes leave, and Sissy takes over running the ranch.

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author	Gus Van Sant
director	Gus Van Sant
editor	Curtiss Clayton Gus Van Sant
genre	comedy-drama romance western
keywords	birth defect defect end hitchhiker love affair mutation new york city run whooping crane
musicBy	Ben Mink k.d. lang
producer	Eric McLeod Gus Van Sant Laurie Parker
productionCompany	Fourth Vision
publisher	Fine Line Features
theme	feminist independent lgbt-related romantic comedy