What does it mean to carry something the world insists on explaining? "Resurrection" is a drama-fantasy from director Daniel Petrie, following Edna Mae McCauley—played by Ellen Burstyn—a woman who survives a car crash and returns with an inexplicable gift for healing others. Sam Shepard plays her mercurial lover Cal, and Richard Farnsworth is the eccentric who runs Last Chance Gas. A one-off entry in our Ellen Burstyn series.
Pete and Andy dig into what makes "Resurrection" so unusual—a film that refuses to assign its central miracle to any doctrine, religious or scientific. The conversation moves from Burstyn's steadfast performance to a complicated father-daughter relationship that cuts deeper than the film's more obvious conflicts. We have a great time talking about it, so check it out then tune in—The Next Reel on TruStory FM, when the movie ends, our conversation begins!
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