Reducing the novel to its most basic plot line, writer-director Van Sant clips every flight of Robbins's fancy - the only thing that holds the book together in the first place. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"-the-movie, starring Uma Thurman, is a moribund, monotonous affair.
But if it is possible to transmogrify Robbins's 400-plus pages of pseudo-lyrical, stoned reveries into a satisfying movie, Gus Van Sant is clearly not the one to do it.
It's entirely possible that "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," Tom Robbins's cultish novel about Sissy Hankshaw - the proto-feminist hitchhiker with oversize thumbs and smoldering sexuality - is unfilmable.
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