robbmoffett So bad,it almost killed me, and I mean that literally. I made a video review explaining how this is the worst movie ever made and how watching it almost caused me to die.http://youtu.be/Y4VqXl0BOGM Sorry Uma Thurman. Maybe I should not have read the book.Maybe I should have expected less from Gus van Sant. But I am not making this up. After watching this movie, which was absolutely the worst I have ever seen, almost supernaturally bad, an event happened that almost took my life as a direct result of watching the movie that almost killed me. It is that bad!

Rodrigo Amaro A respectful director, a talented group of actors and one of the best first ten minutes I ever saw in a motion picture. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" lacks humor, talent, and most of all a good plot. And what's left to say? One of the Worst Films ever. I'll say to you don't even bother watching because it's a completely waste of time (for those who are about to rent it a waste of money, I feel sorry for those Gus Van Sant's die hard fans that payed for this nonsense to see this in theaters back in 1994). I mean, not absolutely total waste of time. The first 40 minutes are great, they left a curiosity in see what's going to happen next and then it's all downhill.Uma Thurman plays Sissy, a woman who was born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US. So far so good. When she goes to New York she becomes a model and eventually she starts working with 'the Countess' (John Hurt) an agent who sends her to a ranch in CA to shoot a commercial. In this beauty ranch she becomes friends of a bunch of cowgirls (all of them lesbians) and the movie turn out to be a unfunny piece of wasted moments where actors come and go without no explanation and we're sorry for them. A great list of good actors are present in this movie and they're all wasted: Keanu Reeves, Pat Morita, Udo Kier, Rain Phoenix, Angie Dickinson, Crispin Glover, Lorraine Bracco, Carol Kane, Sean Young, Grace Zabriskie, Ed Begley Jr., Buck Henry, Roseanne, Heather Graham and the uncredited appearances of Edward James Olmos and River Phoenix (I didn't find him through the whole movie so I can't say if he's good or bad, but I trust his enormous talent. This shouldn't be one of his last features).The bottom of line is this: a bad bad movie, without reasons to exist, and Gus van Sant shouldn't in any moment direct this thing. He's the accomplished author of masterpieces like "My Own Private Idaho", "Good Will Hunting", "Finding Forrester", "Milk", and "Drugstore Cowboy". He shouldn't be a part of such a creepy pointless movie. You can see that his name is written differently than in his other movies. Perhaps it's just a way to say how embarrassing this movie was to his career. Holded the record of the Worst Film I've seen until last year when I watched "Freddy Got Fingered", that one was a total disrespect to movie lovers. Anyway, I'm only giving one star to this because the beginning was quite impressive. That's it! 1/10

mdugan-3 Worst movie of all time? Wow, whoa now. You cannot be serious.Maybe it's all about what you expect a movie to do to you. I live in Oregon, so I got to enjoy the beautifully-filmed shots of familiar yet still amazingly beautiful Smith Rocks and other areas in Central Oregon (as well as the sweet cameo of our own Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs looking down on baby Sissy's cradle at the beginning of the movie). Those alone were enough to spur me to give the movie a better than "average" score.Or .... Maybe it's all about what expectations you have. Having read the book AGES ago, and thinking to myself "goodness, no one could ever make a movie out of this interesting, quirky, weird book ... especially 20 years later, when mores (MORAYS -- can't put in the accent mark online) have changed" -- I was actually quite pleasantly surprised when I first watched the movie when it came out in 1994 and even liked it more today watching it again.Sissy was exquisitely cast, and I don't care what you all say, I was also pleasantly surprised at Rain Phoenix's and John Hurt's performances. I am not a lesbian nor bi nor trans, but have met many folks who are similar to the folks they were supposed to portray -- and those "real" folks kinda acted the same way as these actors acted. Stilted a bit, stage-ey -- always a bit "on." Gus Van Sant is one weird native Oregonian but by garsh he done a good job adapting this crazy book, IMHO.

Lauren Bruce I absolutely love all of Tom Robbins books, so I was very excited and interested to see a movie made after one of his books. I knew that there would be no way that the movie would capture even half of Robbins' magic, but after seeing the movie, it made me never want to read the book again. The movie Even Cowgirls Get the Blues doesn't include an eighth of the content in the book, and it seems to focus more on the love connection between Bonanza Jellybean and Sissy than anything else. Along with the incredibly weak plot line in the movie, I think that better actors definitely could have been chosen to play the characters. The only actors in the movie that I thought played their roles fit to Robbins' descriptions in the book were Julian's friends, in their five minute clip in the beginning of the movie. Those who haven't read the book might enjoy the movie, but as a huge Tom Robbins fan, this movie was nothing but a disappointment.