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Resurrection (1999)
A better ending than the original film, but...
Okay, so I really loved the original film with Ellen Burstyn but hated the end -- she has a gift that could do so much good, but because she had a scare (her whackadoo boyfriend -- the genius Sam Sheppard -- tries to kill her when he goes spiritually bonkers), she decides to hide herself away, occasionally healing when happenstance provides. Boo on that. And boo on Cal (Sam's nutzoid character) flipping out. I mean, could happen, I guess -- I've met enough spiritual cuckoos to know this is so, but still, it's such a drastic turnabout that it doesn't read. But the quality of the film was high on every other level. And Ellen Burstyn was radiant.
This version had a dreary downbeat feeling pretty much throughout with lackluster performances by most of the actors, including the wonderful Dana Delany. And the whackadoo attempted murder business from Version #1 is translated into this version as well with equally poor success.
HOWEVER, (okay, spoiler alert now -- I'm going to talk about the end...) what Claire does NOT do in this version is hide herself away. In fact, this film's end is so powerful and wonderful and inspiring that it makes slogging through the downbeat rest of this version so very much worth the trip. Weird -- Version #1 was wonderful until the dissatisfying end, and Version #2 was dissatisfying until the awesome end, and Dana, too, picked up speed and ended on an incandescent high. Go figure.