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Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmities. While most people simply accept her gift, her lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because she does not place the healings within a religious context.
A passenger in her husband Joes new sports car, Edna Mae Macaulay barely survives after the car careens off a California cliff, that accident which took Joes life. Now a paraplegic, Edna, who briefly died during that incident, is invited back to live with her estranged father, John Harper, in her rural Kansas hometown where most of her extended family still lives. An incident involving a young relative with a nosebleed makes Ednas grandmother Pearl believe that Ednas near death experience may have given her the power to heal. Indeed, Edna is able to recover fully from her own injuries. She becomes a minor celebrity, healing whoever she can, which is about 70% of those she attempts. She doesnt really need to know why she has received these powers, although many others do. Some want to know the scientific reason for her powers. Others dont want her help believing it is the work of the devil. And others, like Cal Carpenter, a man with who she begins a relationship, ultimately believes she is the resurrection of Christ. That belief by Cal, who was healed himself from a potentially life threatening injury by Edna, may take their relationship to an incompatible and potentially deadly state.
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
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