Resurrection (1980)

RESURRECTION  (1980)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Daniel Petrie
    Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
    Roberts Blossom, Eva Le Gallienne, Lois Smith
Ellen Burstyn plays a woman named Edna who comes back from a near-death experience and finds that she now has an unexplained power to heal. She's willing to chalk it up to love, but the local guardians of righteousness exhort her to embrace the Lord, and when she won't do that, they get righteously miffed. For some people, miracles aren't enough. An impossibly young Sam Shepard plays a guy Edna heals and then gets involved with, and Richard Farnsworth does a nice bit as a philosophical old coot who runs a gas station and shows her his two-headed snake. It costs her a dime, but it's worth it. A two-headed snake in a movie like this - that must symbolize something. I'm just not sure what.