Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 11/02/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Writer/director
Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until
Good Will Hunting -- is based on
Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller.
Uma Thurman plays
Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very large thumbs. After her parents (
Grace Zabriskie and
Ken Kesey) take her to a doctor (
Buck Henry), who offers her parents no remedy for their daughter's condition, the film races ahead to the 1970s.
Sissy is now a popular feminine hygiene spray model for a product called Yoni Yum, the product of a company owned by
The Countess (
John Hurt in drag).
Sissy travels to the Rubber Rose beauty ranch, also owned by
The Countess, to shoot a Yoni Yum commercial. At the ranch, she makes the acquaintance of the inscrutable
Chink (
Pat Morita) and
Bonanza Jellybean (
Rain Phoenix). But under the nose of
The Countess, the cowgirls on the ranch are talking mutiny, with the women trying to liberate the Rubber Rose Ranch from the chains of patriarchal oppression.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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