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VHS : Picking Up the Pieces (2000)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $9.98 Price: $5.45 You Save: $4.53 (45%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0012236108009 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Label: Live / Artisan Manufacturer: Live / Artisan Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Live / Artisan Release Date: May 22, 2001 Running Time: 95 minutes Studio: Live / Artisan Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Sales Rank: 33254 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Woody Allen stars in Picking Up the Pieces, playing a butcher named Tex who cuts up his adulterous wife (played by Sharon Stone) in a jealous rage. On his way to bury the pieces, he loses her hand on the side of the road, where it's found by a blind woman--and miraculously gives her back her sight. Before long, the hand has become a religious relic, drawing huge crowds to the small town of El Nino, New Mexico, and testing the faithlessness of a straying priest (David Schwimmer), who's in love with the town's leading prostitute (Maria Gracia Cucinotta, from Il Postino). Add to this a corrupt mayor (Cheech Marin), a lawman named Bobo (Kiefer Sutherland), who's committed to getting Tex behind bars, a trio of investigators from the Vatican (Elliott Gould, Andy Dick, and Fran Drescher), and you've got... well, it's hard to say what. Director Alfonso Arau previously made the wonderful Like Water for Chocolate, and although Picking Up the Pieces has a similar magical-realism flavor, it doesn't quite come together. The movie does have a genial, raffish atmosphere and a bizarre cast, all of whom are having a good time. Arau himself plays a small role with great charm. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Exceptionaly FunnyOnly A Genious could make such a creative and funny movie as this. It stars Sharon Stone, Woody Allen, Kiefer Sutherland, Cheech Marrin and alot of other great actors, who all together make this side splitting humer work. and I would recomend it to everyone. Rating:  - Great hook and then Arau's farce just ends up disappointingIn "Picking Up the Pieces" Woody Allen plays a kosher butcher named Tex Cowley, complete with the cowboy boots and Stetson, who chops up his philandering wife Candy (Sharon Stone) into seven pieces. He buries the pieces across the border from Texas in New Mexico, but loses Candy's hand. A blind woman stumbles across the hand, which is still giving the finger (apparently a last act of defiance as Candy was butchered), and is cured. The next thing we know the hand is being venerated in the church ... Read More Rating:  - Picking Up the FecesI moaned throughout this sad little stain on Woody's resume. I guess I was hoping that it would eventually get righted, but it never happens. Once upon a time Woody directed and starred in Play It Again Sam, a bouquet to Casablanca, a film with one of the best exit lines ever. Picking Up the Pieces ends with one of the worst. The execution of Kiefer Sutherland's character is unbearable to watch. He is made a human pinata and beaten to death by ... Read More Rating: - Funny and Pointing"Picking up the Pieces" is one of the funniest movies I have seen in, well, a long, long time. It is a movie with a rich tapestry of motives--beginning with the obvious reference to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", then rollicking through a bewildering landscape of Catholic lores, superstitions and customs, which it mocks in a way that only a true and knowledgeable Catholic, such as Alfonso Arau, can. It will take an equally knowledgeable Catholic (yes, Catholics are not totally without ... Read More Rating: - Surprise! The film was SUPPOSED to be absurd!No, not every joke works, but many do. And yes, it's completely irreverent, a bit disrespectful and a hair gross at times. The language is kind of rough. But it's still an enjoyable, if not constantly funny film. And it was definitely supposed to be lopsided and offbeat, with, I think, some intentional miscasting to a degree. The problem is, I tried to order this twice, and it got cancelled both times! I had to buy an import. Amazon... can you really buy this now???? Browse for similar items by category:
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