A woman enters the afterlife briefly after a car crash that kills her husband. But she survives - and finds herself possessing strange powers.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ellen Burstyn | ... | Edna | |
| Sam Shepard | ... | Cal | |
| Richard Farnsworth | ... | Esco | |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | John Harper | |
| Clifford David | ... | George | |
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Pamela Payton-Wright | ... | Margaret |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... | Joe | |
| Eva Le Gallienne | ... | Grandma Pearl | |
| Lois Smith | ... | Kathy | |
| Madeleine Sherwood | ... | Ruth (as Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood) | |
| Richard Hamilton | ... | Earl Carpenter | |
| Carlin Glynn | ... | Suzy Kroll | |
| Lane Smith | ... | Don | |
| Penelope Allen | ... | Ellie | |
| Ebbe Roe Smith | ... | Hank Peterson | |
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Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmities. While most people simply accept her gift, her lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because she does not place the healings within a religious context. Written by Michael Cieslak <mcieslak@ix.netcom.com>
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spiritual healing | psychotronic film | nosebleed | paraplegic | kansas |Taglines:
There is a line between life and death. Edna McCauley crossed over that line and came back. Now no one she touches will ever be the same. See more »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
26 September 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$308,068, 28 September 1980Gross USA:
$3,910,019Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$3,910,019Company Credits
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Grandma Pearl: Yes - that's it, ain't it. If we could just... Love... each other, as much as we say we love Him, I 'spect there wouldn't be the bother in the world there is.
Edna Mae McCauley: I 'spect.
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Edna Mae, the character she plays in Resurrection, is a variation of Ellen Burstyn's real name, which is Edna Rae Gillooly. See more »Quotes
Edna Mae McCauley: I love you, Gramma.Grandma Pearl: Yes - that's it, ain't it. If we could just... Love... each other, as much as we say we love Him, I 'spect there wouldn't be the bother in the world there is.
Edna Mae McCauley: I 'spect.
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Crazy Credits
Stills of different portions of the movie are shown during the credits. The final still is a part not previously seen and it shows the rock garden behind the gas station which is referenced earlier in the movie. See more »Alternate Versions
ABC edited 8 minutes from this film for its 1983 network television premiere. See more »Connections
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Ordinary woman, recently paralyzed in a car accident that left her husband dead, drives with her father through the California desert and meets a wily, warm old coot running a service station; he introduces her to his two-headed snake and then, without provocation, touches the top of her head affectionately. Soon thereafter, she finds she can heal the ailing--including herself--which frightens her distant father as well as the new man in her love-life. Occasionally overwrought or slow, "Resurrection" has a solid screenplay to fall back on, and a terrific actress in the leading role. Ellen Burstyn, feisty, flawed and fed up, creates a three-dimensional character here who often makes bad choices but never loses our respect. Fighting with her father for the last time, she tells him, "I am sick...to...death...of trying to get you to love me." Fine supporting performances by Eva Le Gallienne, Richard Farnsworth and Lois Smith, but Sam Shepherd isn't well cast as the new love-interest (he's supposed to be a sexy bad boy, but instead he just seems villainous, in a perpetual foul mood). The movie lays on the hick-charm a bit heavily (our heroine is Edna Mae, her grandmother is Grandma Pearl), but it has a great deal of heart and some very moving, sensitive moments. *** from ****