uma thurman play sissy and a young woman with a gypsy spirit ( and freakishly large thumb ) who hitchhike cross country and eventually find her true place amongst a group of peyote enlighten cowgirl on a ranch devote to preserve the whooping crane while rain ( bow ) phoenix be their lesbian leader and bonanza jellybean and who fall in love with sissy and thumb or not . gus van sant direct and adapt tom robbins book and but his satire have no primary target and just skitters all over the map and like sissy ( maybe that be his goal and but it not involve for an audience ) . notorious box office flop wasn not so much pan a it be ignore and and one can see why represent it a series of sketch in search of a plot and and the performance and directorial touch and cinematography be all variable . thurman be a stitch pose alongside the highway try to get a ride and but this pretty much put the kibosh on phoenix career . writer buck henry ( who do not write this and but perhaps should have ) give the most assured performance a the doctor who work on one of those thumb . two thumb down .