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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
Richard Hamilton
Earl Carpenter
Carlin Glynn
Suzy Kroll
Lane Smith
Don
Penelope Allen
Ellie
Ebbe Roe Smith
Hank Peterson
John Tillinger
Dr. Herron
Trazana Beverley
Dr. Ellen Baxter
Ralph Roberts
Buck
George Sperdakos
Dr. Hankins
Bernard Behrens
Dr. Fisher
James Blendick
1st Scientist
Vernon Weddle
2nd Scientist
David Calkins
Man in Bar
Harvey Christiansen
Ned
Therese East
Ada Carpenter
Lou Fant
Harvey
Jessie Lee Fulton
Becky
David Haney
Jack Coldren
Claudette Harrell
Woman in Dance Hall
James N. Harrell
Doc Lurkin
Jennifer McAllister
Joanie
Don Michaelson
Doctor
A.G. Mills
Uncle Ely
Zeke Mills
Uncle Ely
Edith Mills
Aunt Carrie
Eva Mokry
Daisy Coldren
Edward Pflaum
Gay Keener
Elfrieda Russell
Zee
Shane Sinutko
Skateboard Boy
Tommy Splittgerber
Man in Dance Hall
Douglas G. Jacobson
Man in Dance Hall
Joshua Dean Stewart
Bobby
Ruth N. Straw
Avarilla
Tom Taylor
Clyde
Brett Lamar Turner
Lester Coldren
Sylvia Walden
Louise
Carol Williard
Nurse
Tracy E. Wilson
Lizzie Coldren
William D. Wittliff
Man in Bar
William Ellis Smith
Man in Truck
Sally Bondi
Sarah (uncredited)
Greg Scholl
Boy with Harmonica (uncredited)
Dan'l Terry
Polio Survivor at Church (uncredited)

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Sun May 02 2021

_**Acquiring the power to heal**_ After a horrible accident a woman (Ellen Burstyn) has a vague life-after-death experience and soon discovers that she has healing powers, which results in conflicting reactions from people. Sam Shepard plays her beau, Eva Le Gallienne her loving grandma and Richard Farnsworth a charismatic old man living in the desert. "Resurrection" (1980) explores a concept that was addressed a dozen years earlier in the Star Trek episode "The Empath” except that the story takes place in present-day America (which would be 1979 when the film was shot). How would peop...