Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)

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About the movie

Year

1993

Runtime

1 h 35 min

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western

Country

United States

Director

Gus Van Sant

Writers

Tom Robbins, Gus Van Sant

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Starring

Uma Thurman

Lorraine Bracco

Pat Morita

Keanu Reeves

John Hurt

Main cast

Uma Thurman Sissy Hankshaw

Lorraine Bracco Delores Del Ruby

Pat Morita The Chink

Angie Dickinson Miss Adrian

Keanu Reeves Julian Gitche

John Hurt The Countess

Rain Phoenix Bonanza Jellybean

Ed Begley Jr. Rupert

Carol Kane Carla

Sean Young Marie Barth

Crispin Glover Howard Barth

Roseanne Madame Zoe

Buck Henry Dr. Dreyfus

Grace Zabriskie Mrs. Hankshaw

Treva Jeffryes Young Sissy

Ken Kesey Sissy's Daddy

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External critics' reviews

The movie contains its moments, charms and felicities-even its sharp stings of pleasure and pain.

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." more

Pic stays on the surface, without attempting any exploration of painful depths. Result is at best amusing; at worst, uninvolving, often confusing, and sometimes a little boring. more

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. more

No one seems to be having any fun, including the normally masterful Van Sant, whose direction is unstructured, confusing, and lackadaisical. more

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. more

Van Sant's film is cold and the gallery of eccentrics merely come across as vulgar caricatures. more

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. more

Even Cowgirls is as close to an unwatchable film as there is available at this time in the theaters. more

Saddled with leaden lead performances, hobbled by an arch, incoherent script and pokey pacing, the new, improved Cowgirls is a miscarriage - misconceived, miscast, miserably boring. more

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