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Synopsis: ven Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film based on Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant (credited as Gus Van Sant, Jr.) and starred an ensemble cast led by Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, and Rain Phoenix. Robbins himself was the narrator. The soundtrack was sung entirely by k.d. lang. The film was dedicated to the late River Phoenix.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Fine Line Features
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.3
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
21%
R
Year:
1993
95 min
381 Views


DR. DREYFUS

Remember the words of the painter

Paul Gauguin, dear lady. "The ugly

may be beautiful, the pretty never."

I don't suppose that means very much

to you.

MRS. HANKSHAW

It's a judgement. She's gotta bear

the punishment.

Sissy beams serenely like a Christ figure.

INT. SCHOOL LIBRARY DAY

Sissy looks up "thumb" in the dictionary. It says: the short,

thick first or most preaxial digit of the human hand,

differing from the other fingers by having two phalanges and

greater freedom of movement.

Sissy mouthing the words: "Greater freedom of movement."

EXT. ROAD DAY

Sissy very timidly ventures a pass with her gigantic right

thumb in the direction she is walking.

She is passed by...... BUT NO!

BRAKE LIGHTS! A Pontiac skids ever so slightly on the

snowflakes. View of the Pontiac insignia on the hood of the

car.

Sissy runs, actually sweating, to its side. She peers in.

OUTSIDE a palmist's trailer is a sign with a red silhouette

of a hand.

Directly under the wrist where the watch band would be is

written MADAME ZOE.

Madam Zoe in kimono and wig lets Sissy and her mother in the

door.

MADAME ZOE:

I am the enlightened Madame Zoe.

Inside. Madame Zoe begins stubbing a cigarette in one of

those enlightened little ceramic ashtrays that are shaped

like bedpans and inscribed BUTTS. The trailer is cluttered,

but not one knick-knack, chintz curtain or chenille-covered

armchair seems to have come from the Beyond.

MADAME ZOE:

There is nothing about your past,

present or future that your hands do

not know, and there is nothing about

your hands that Madame Zoe does not

know. There is no hocus-pocus

involved. I am a scientist, not a

magician. I, Madame Zoe, chiromancer,

lifelong student of the moldings and

markings of the human hand. I, Madame

Zoe, to whom no facet of your

character or destiny is not readily

revealed. I am prepared to...

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Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker. more…

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