We glimpse Sissy’s life from passenger seat to passenger seat as she passes through towns and the lives of the people in them. This Western road folktale, adapted from Tom Robbins’ 1976 novel, tells the cross-country travels of one Sissy Hankshaw ( Uma Thurman), a free-spirited model/hitchhiker blessed with enormous thumbs. This wasn’t My Own Private Idaho! How offensive! In his review, Roger Ebert recalled, “I remember the hush that descended upon the theater during the screening it was not so much an absence of noise as the palpable presence of stunned silence.” Critics were gagged. When Gus Van Sant‘s Even Cowgirls Get The Blues first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1993, there was a heavy sense of disappointment in the air.
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