Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)

Infobox Film
name = Even Cowgirls Get the Blues


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Gus Van Sant
producer = Gus Van Sant
writer = Tom Robbins
Gus Van Sant
narrator = Tom Robbins
starring = Uma Thurman
Lorraine Bracco
Angie Dickinson
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
Keanu Reeves
with John Hurt
and
Rain Phoenix
music = k.d. lang
Ben Mink
cinematography = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006408/ John J. Campbell]
editing = Gus Van Sant
distributor = Fine Line Features
New Line Cinema (DVD)
released = May 20, 1994
runtime = 95 min.
country = flagicon|USA
language = English
German
budget = $8 million
gross = $1.71 million [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106834/business Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) - Box office / business ] ]
amg_id = 1:131158
imdb_id = 0106834

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" is a 1993 comedy-drama-romance film based on the 1976 Tom Robbins novel of the same name. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, and Grace Zabriskie. Tom Robbins himself was the narrator. The soundtrack was sung entirely by k.d. lang.

Dedicated to the late River Phoenix, the movie was a critical and commercial failure. After this film had its world premiere in September 1993 at the Toronto Film Festival, the movie was set to open, but due to the incredibly negative response, the film was delayed for more editing. The US wide release was May 20, 1994.

Plot

The story of Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman), 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 who introduces her to the man whom she will marry, a staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche (Keanu Reeves). In her later travels she encounters, among many others, a sexually open cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix) and an itinerant escapee from the Japanese internment camps happily mislabeled "The Chink" (Pat Morita). Robbins finally inserts himself into the novel as a character as well.

Cast

*Tom Robbins as Narrator (voice)
*Uma Thurman as Sissy Hankshaw
*Lorraine Bracco as Delores Del Ruby
*Pat Morita as The Chink
*Angie Dickinson as Miss Adrian
*Keanu Reeves as Julian Gitche
*John Hurt as The Countess
*Rain Phoenix as Bonanza Jellybean
*Ed Begley Jr. as Rupert
*Carol Kane as Carla
*Sean Young as Marie Barth
*Crispin Glover as Howard Barth
*Roseanne Arnold as Madame Zoe
*Buck Henry as Dr. Dreyfus
*Grace Zabriskie as Mrs. Hankshaw
*Ken Kesey as Mr. Hankshaw
*Heather Graham as Cowgirl Heather
*Udo Kier as Commercial Director
*Lin Shaye as Rubber Rose Maid
*William Burroughs as Himself
*Edward James Olmos (uncredited) as Musician at Barbecue

Trivia

* At the beginning, lot of stars rise in the sky. One, aside and slower than the others, writes the words "For River". [River Phoenix]
* The film is referenced in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 Movie Pulp Fiction in which Uma Thurman also appeared.

oundtrack

The soundtrack was released on November 2, 1993 by Rhino Records. [ [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002MN9/internetmoviedat/ Amazon.com: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack: Music: k.d. lang,Lorraine Bracco,Pat Morita,Angie Dickinson,Keanu Reeves,John Hurt,Rain Phoenix,Ed Begley Jr.,Carol Kane,Sean Young,Crispin Glover,Roseanne,Buck Henry,Grace Zabriskie,Treva Jeffryes,Ken Kesey,Ken Babbs,Allen Arnold,Victoria Williams (VII),Heather Graham ] ]

Track listing

#Just Keep Me Moving
#Much Finer Place
#Or Was I
#Hush Sweet Lover
#Myth
#Apogee
#Virtual Vortex
#Lifted by Love
#Overture
#Kundalini Yoga Waltz
#In Perfect Dreams
#Curious Soul Astray
#Ride of Bonanza Jellybean
#Don't Be a Lemming Polka
#Sweet Little Cherokee - k.d. lang
#Cowgirl Pride

Filming locations

* Portland, Oregon flagicon|USA
* Terrebonne, Oregon flagicon|USA
* Sisters, Oregon flagicon|USA
* Bend, Oregon flagicon|USA

ee also

* Cowgirl

References

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