even cowgirls get the blues

Director: gus van sant

Actor: uma thurman,lorraine bracco,pat morita,angie dickinson

Data Published: Fri May 20 1994

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Romance,Western

Key Words: hare krishna,reference to krishna the hindu deity,ranch,cowgirl,thumb

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106834/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues_(film)

Description: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a movie starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Pat Morita. Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the U.S. from a young age. She becomes a model...

Plot: The film tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, 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 eventually take her to New York, 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 who 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 won't 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.