Even Cowgirls Get The Blues [VHS] [1995]

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Product Description Gus van Sant's offbeat Western follows the adventures of Sissy, a free-spirited woman with huge thumbs and thus a natural talent for hitchhiking. One of her journeys leads her to the Rubber Rose Ranch, a state-of-the-art health spa run by a flamboyant Countess and populated by a bunch of modern day cowgirls. .co.uk Review If someone ever put together a what-were-they-thinking top 10, this film would surely make the list. Based on Tom Robbins's 70s ode to freedom, whooping cranes and ambisexuality, this Gus Van Sant film sat on the shelf for almost a year before its brief release. More of a curiosity than anything else, it tells the convoluted story of Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman), the world's greatest hitchhiker by virtue of her mammoth, um, thumbs. She falls in with a lesbian collective at a dude ranch and, well, the rest is kind of a mess. Kind of? Let's say it's a monumental mess, one of those films that's like a 25-car pileup on the interstate that you have to stop and look at, just to figure out what people like Keanu Reeves, Roseanne, John Hurt and Angie Dickinson are doing there. --Marshall Fine