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Writer:
Lewis John Carlino (written by)
Release Date:
26 September 1980 (USA)
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Tagline:
It's not supposed to happen. So be there when it does. more
Plot:
Ellen Burstyn experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband...
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Car Accident
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Gift
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Afterlife
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California
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Motorcycle
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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5 nominations
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(5 articles)
tMF Oscarwatch: Best Actress Losers - Ellen Burstyn ( Requiem for a Dream)
(From The Movie Fanatic. 11 August 2009, 12:09 AM, PDT)
tMF Oscarwatch: Best Actress Losers - Ellen Burstyn ( Requiem for a Dream)
(From The Movie Fanatic. 11 August 2009, 12:09 AM, PDT)
(From The Movie Fanatic. 11 August 2009, 12:09 AM, PDT)
tMF Oscarwatch: Best Actress Losers - Ellen Burstyn ( Requiem for a Dream)
(From The Movie Fanatic. 11 August 2009, 12:09 AM, PDT)
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A remarkable film...and an acting tour-de-force for Ellen Burstyn
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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 |
| 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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103 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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When the idea was first pitched to Ellen Burstyn, the film was supposed to be more of a thriller, like The Exorcist (1973). Burstyn was not impressed with that approach, so when she heard the approach offered by writer Lewis John Carlino, she was impressed and this film is the result.
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Esco Brown:
Go carefully with peace in your heart, love in your eyes, and laughter on your tongue. And if life don't hand you nothing but lemons, you just make you a bunch of lemonade. Book Brown, chapter one, verse one.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Northern Exposure: Homesick (#4.20)" (1993)
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Soundtrack:
Polly Wolly Doodle
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Ordinary woman, recently widowed after a car accident left her husband dead and her legs paralyzed, stops for a minute at a service station in the desert and meets a wily, warm old coot who touches her head affectionately (and precisely). Soon thereafter, she finds she can cure the ailing--including herself--which frightens her distant father and 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 very 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 ****