Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Borserie
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
Verity Robins
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
alfadogmusic
The Greatest Movie Ending Ever! I could watch the end a million times and never tire of it!
quasimodo-94719
Resurrection is one of the most moving films I have seen in some time. However, the original had a different ending than the DVD version that came out afterwards. To this day I cannot comprehend what was in the mind of any producer to make this change.The original film ending as presented on TV shows Edna hugging the boy goodbye before the family left, but it was more of holding him close as her healing energy was passing from her into the boy.From his expression as the family drives away, he and Edna wave goodbye to each other, and you know that he would be well again soon, and Edna would go back back to her simple life.The DVD version changed that powerful ending to one where Edna simply holds the boy and the camera freeze frames her face as the credits roll.Why this crude destruction of the original is beyond me. If anyone is lucky or able to find the original, somehow put word of it out there because I have not been able to find a copy.
zetes
Ellen Burstyn is involved in a horrific car accident with her husband. The husband dies. Burstyn does, as well, but she's brought back by the doctors. Her near-death experience gives her the power to heal, which she embraces but doesn't understand. This bothers the local religious folk, who want her to invoke God's name (because if it's not the Christian God giving her the powers, it's the devil). Sam Shepard plays the son of the most belligerent Christian. Shepard, who is saved by Burstyn, is not religious like his father, but, as he becomes more intrigued by her supernatural powers, he starts to believe she might be Jesus resurrected. The film goes in some interesting directions, but, for whatever reason, it always felt a little flat to me. It's like it wants to have a religious edge, but it also really doesn't want to be at all Christian. In the end, it feels kind of New Agey, not unlike Terrence Malick's recent Tree of Life (although that one's far more successful). The one thing to really recommend here is Ellen Burstyn's performance. She's wonderful and received one of her six Oscar nominations for the role. Eva Le Galienne, who plays Burstyn's folksy grandmother, also got a Best Supporting Actress nod, and it's really one of the more ridiculous Oscar nominations I know of. She has almost no screen time, makes almost no impression. She was a very famous stage actress in her day, but she isn't at all a famous screen actress. Shepard is also very good in his role, and Richard Farnsworth has a far-too-small role as a gas station attendant.
moonspinner55
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 ****
