Gus Van Sant's 1993 film dedicated to River Pheonix shortly after his death, starred a young uma Thurman and Rain Pheonix, Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Sean Young, Heather Graham, Carol Cane and many other credible known actors.
The film is adapted from Tom Robbins novel of the same title which I'm currently reading and is incredible. The story surrounds a young women who has an itching for hitchhiking her whole life and is a talented one trick pony really for it is her passion and drive for life and with two very over sized thumbs its bound to be. As she travels back and forth around the country she meets familiar faces who are fakes and phonies and then meets a group of women who are cowgirls fighting for their land at first she was told to be distant from them but soon becomes attached and feels as if she belongs for once.
When Sissy Hankshaw was younger her mother took her to a psychic and told her she would love men and women but mostly women and falls deeply in love with Rain's character. I think this aspect of the film is really touching because it just focuses on the love itself and how powerful it is to Sissy something she has never really experienced to the fullest before and the couple make a powerful cowgirl duo. <3
I love this film its now one of my favourites I adore the story the outfits, script music its all just everything I like cowgirls, road movies, and oddballs all rolled into one big crazy, authentic wild baguette.
Plus Dee Lite's nod to the film <3
