Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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September 13th, 1993

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Comedy, Drama

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Based on Book/Play, Romance

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Directed: Gus Van Sant Written: NA
Starring: Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson

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A movie so bad it's good. It has the quirky feel of the Tom Robbins novel it was based on. If you want to see a young Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi of The Sopranos) Uma Thurman with big rubber thumbs and lots of dirty cowgirls; then this movie is...
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[+] Chicago Tribune

63

The movie contains its moments, charms and felicities-even its sharp stings of pleasure and pain. [20 May 1994]
by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
[+] Portland Oregonian

58

The novel's exuberance, happy sensuality, goes AWOL in Van Sant's sadder, darker vision. [20 May 1994]
by Barry Johnson | Read Full Review »
[+] San Francisco Chronicle

50

Campbell and Edwards work wonders with the rocky, wide-open Oregon landscape, but none of their periwinkle-blue skies and sparkling shots of whooping cranes in flight can compensate for a film that aims high, means well, and ultimately fails its audience. [20 May 1994]
by Edward Guthmann | Read Full Review »
[+] Austin Chronicle

50

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."
by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Reader

40

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.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
[+] Variety

40

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.
by Deborah Young | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

38

No one seems to be having any fun, including the normally masterful Van Sant, whose direction is unstructured, confusing, and lackadaisical.
by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
[+] Los Angeles Times

30

Loaded as it is with undeveloped notions about feminism and individuality, nothing about it is really memorable except the appealing musicality of the fine k.d. lang/Ben Mink score, which deserves better. [20 May 1994]
by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
[+] The New York Times

30

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.
by Janet Maslin | Read Full Review »
[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

25

Writer/director Gus Van Sant, who's built his reputation on the romantic decadence of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho," completely misses the poetry and the irony of the book. [20 May 1994]
by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
[+] Boston Globe

25

Van Sant winds up with disconnected, dispirited pieces that never come together and lift off the screen with a whoosh of sly high spirits. [20 May 1994]
by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
[+] Empire

20

Van Sant's film is cold and the gallery of eccentrics merely come across as vulgar caricatures.
by Colette Maude | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

12

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.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] ReelViews

12

Even Cowgirls is as close to an unwatchable film as there is available at this time in the theaters.
by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

10

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues the movie, starring Uma Thurman, is a moribund, monotonous affair.
by Desson Howe | Read Full Review »

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