Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
Directed by Gus Van Sant
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
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Gus Van Sant was once a top indie director and has now taken to combining the worst elements of his mainstream success Good Will Hunting (1997) with the stuff that made some of his other movies so bad, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994) and Psycho (1998).
"I think that when I was starting out and was making my first three films, Mala Noche [1985], Drugstore Cowboy [1989], and My Own Private Idaho, before I went into another arena, which was Even Cowgirls Get the Blues [1993] and then To Die For [1995], which don't really connect to my own genres, and I'm now into this, aside from Psycho [1999], into this Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester area.
Now Gus Van Sant, onetime guardian of the quirky avant guard ( "To Die For ," "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"), takes on an After School Special of a script about a ghetto littérateur savant and his reclusive white mentor, and creates "Finding Forrester" -- a solidly enjoyable, fairly cerebral feature raised above its roots by stout performances from its two leads.