Picking Up The Pieces

PLOT

Tex (Woody Allen) is a butcher who kills his unfaithful wife Candy (Sharon Stone). After cutting up the body, Tex buries most of her body parts in the desert in New Mexico. A blind woman accidentally trips over Candy's hand, which has not been buried. Picking it up, her sight is restored, and she proclaims the hand to be the "Hand of the Virgin Mary."

The hand then becomes the talk of the village and people flock there to heal themselves. This ranges from a crippled man growing new legs, a teenager being relieved of his acne and a midget having his manhood enlarged. Tex hears of these miracles, and attempts to retrieve the hand while being pursued by patrol officer Bobo (Kiefer Sutherland) who was one of his wife's lovers.

Eventually, Tex and the officer track down the hand, with Tex's theft of the hand undoing all the miracles that it has performed. While Tex is in prison, he is visited by his wife's spirit, who reveals that, despite her life of whoring and adultery, the suffering she endured with Tex allowed her to get into Heaven, and she arranges for him to get out of his cell so that he can return the hand to the church.

CAST

Woody Allen as Tex Cowley

David Schwimmer as Father Leo Jerome

Kiefer Sutherland as Officer Bobo

Cheech Marin as Mayor Machado

Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Desi

Elliott Gould as Father LaCage

Sharon Stone as Candy Cowley

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Flaco

Angélica Aragón as Dolores

Andy Dick as Father Buñuel

Alfonso Arau as Dr. Amado

Mia Maestro as Carla

Lou Diamond Phillips as Officer Alfonso

Fran Drescher as Sister Frida

Eddie Griffin as Sediento

Kathy Kinney as Mrs. Tattler