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Mad Cowgirl (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 4  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 89 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 19, 2006 Limited
Synopsis:
Sarah Lassez (NOWHERE, THE BLACKOUT, UNTIL THE NIGHT) delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania, and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her... [More]
Sarah Lassez (NOWHERE, THE BLACKOUT, UNTIL THE NIGHT) delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania, and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her brother Thierry (James Duval from THE DOOM GENERATION and DONNIE DARKO), a meat importer who may (or may not) have infected her with mad cow disease. MAD COWGIRL is practically impossible to describe, but it's a Narrative - Experimental - Art - Comedy - Horror - Tragedy - Kung Fu epic that features multiple languages, a little hardcore porn, a flying guillotine, the old ultraviolence and Walter Koenig (Cmdr. Pavel Chekov) as a slimy sex-addicted preacher. Great Scott! It could also be described as a film about a woman who is dying of a brain disorder, and her surreal journey which descends into violence; or perhaps, it's about a woman who hates her job, and the men in her life, so she is driven to kill the Ten Tigers From Kwangtung. [synopsis from the SF IndieFest program notes] [Less]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Sarah Lassez, James Duval, Devon Odessa, Walter Koenig, Vic Chao

Director: Gregory Hatanaka
Screenwriter: Gregory Hatanaka

DVD Info

Release:

Dec 5, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Letterbox

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurettes - 1. Deleted Scenes
  • 2. Outtakes
  • Trailer - 1. Grindhouse Kung Fu Movie Trailers
  • 2. Theatrical Trailer

Text and Photo Galleries:

  • Still Gallery
  • Biographies

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Fiercely personal and unique.

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07/23/07 05:52 AM
Rob Gonsalves
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Endlessly entertaining, though not recommended for anyone uncomfortable with soft porn, eroticized violence or graphically-depicted slaughter.

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01/12/07 09:03 AM
Kam Williams
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This indulgently puerile waste of time plows ahead with pointless mayhem masquerading as 'art.'

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10/06/06 08:14 PM
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times
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It gives screenwriter-director Gregory Hatanaka an excuse for a lot of scene jumping -- and a chance to make the case for adopting a vegan diet.

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10/05/06 04:07 PM
Michael Esposito
Chicago Tribune
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Absurd, dirty, powerful and disturbingly hilarious.

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07/24/06 06:29 PM
Gregory Weinkauf
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There's a lot happening here, perhaps too much.

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07/20/06 09:12 PM
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Mad Cowgirl is an underground movie with little sense of grounding, and lots of a multicultural weirdness and inchoate meat metaphors.

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07/19/06 07:01 PM
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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Slick and often incomprehensible, it certainly gives you your money's worth, if blood, gore and blasphemy are what you're buying.

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07/19/06 11:35 AM
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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It's safe to say there will not be another movie this year like Mad Cowgirl. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your tolerance for copious bloodletting, hardcore pornography, and C-SPAN.

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07/18/06 01:01 PM
Matt Singer
Village Voice
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This gonzo mashup of romantic comedy, political paranoia, and B-movie adulation is more confounding than thrilling.

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07/05/06 08:39 PM
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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An orgy of red meat and confused filmmaking

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03/01/06 12:07 PM
Brian Mckay
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Theaters showing this should install seatbelts, because audiences are in for the ultimate wild ride.

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12/01/05 01:47 PM
Phil Hall
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