Resurrection

Edna loses her husband in a car crash and survives it badly injured. While she is recovering she notices something strange: people she puts her hands on get better. At first she tells nobody, then she cannot hide it. Back in her home town a queue forms at her door, made of people who have run out of hope. Some treat her as a saint, some call her a fraud, and some want her to say the gift comes from God. Edna does not want to say any of it. Daniel Petrie directs, with Ellen Burstyn as Edna and Sam Shepard as the man beside her. Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award for the part. The film does not explain the healing; it looks at what people want from her.