I just cut my wife apart

Movie
German title	I just cut my wife apart
Original title	Picking up the pieces
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Alfonso Arau
script	Bill Wilson
production	Paul Sandberg
music	Ruy Folguera
camera	Vittorio Storaro
cut	Michael R. Miller
occupation
Woody Allen : Tex Cowley Sharon Stone : Candy Cowley Alfonso Arau : Dr. Amado Brian Brophy : Reporter from CNN Betty Carvalho : Juana Enrique Castillo : Grasiento Jorge Cervera Jr .: Unojo O'Neal Compton : Texas-John Maria Grazia Cucinotta : Desi Marcus Demian : Ricardo Danny De La Paz : taxi driver Andy Dick : Father Buñuel Jeannine De La Torre : Mexican mother Fran Drescher : Sister Frida Richard Edson : Edsel Farkus Elliott Gould : Father LaCage Joseph Gordon-Levitt : Flaco Darius Grace : Paco Eddie Griffin : Sediento Jackie Guerra : Meche Jon Huertas : Paulo Kathy Kinney : Mrs. Tattler Mía Maestro : Carla Cheech Marin : Mayor Machado Miguel Mas : Workers Fritz Mashimo : Japanese pilgrim Kit McDonough : Visitor from Alabama Lupe Ontiveros : Constancia Dyana Ortelli : Gaga Lou Diamond Phillips : Officer Alfonso David Schwimmer : Father Leo Jerome Kiefer Sutherland : Bobo

I only took my wife apart (original title: Picking Up the Pieces ) is a comedy film from the year 2000 by director Alfonso Arau . The film was shot in California and was nominated for an ALMA Award in 2001 in two categories .

action

The butcher Tex Cowley kills his wife Candy and dismantles the body. He transports the body parts from Texas to New Mexico to hide them there in the desert, but loses a hand on the way. A blind woman stumbles over this hand, can see again and declares the hand to be the hand of the Blessed Virgin . The hand becomes known; the mayor Machado uses her fame to attract visitors to the small town. The priest of the local church has doubts, which the prostitute Desi, who is his friend, clears up.

Other miracles happen: a man who has had his legs amputated will grow back. A teenager loses their acne and other small town dwellers change their anatomy to their advantage.

Cowley learns of the events and tries to get the hand back. Meanwhile, the Texan policeman Bobo asks him where his wife is. Cowley says she's working in a bar, which Bobo is checking. The bar owner reports that Candy has not shown up at work for a week. Bobo arrests Cowley but has to release him because he passes the polygraph test .

Followed by Bobo, Cowley heads back to New Mexico to make the hand disappear. When he arrives at his destination, he also succeeds, which results in the miracles disappearing, but he is arrested for theft. Bobo's parallel attempt to arrest him for murder fails because, as a Texan police officer, he is not allowed to exercise his official powers in another state.

In his prison cell, Cowley is visited by the ghost of his murdered wife, who asks him to bring the hand back. He can flee, bring the hand back and the miracles work again. Bobo, who has since emerged with an arrest warrant valid in New Mexico, is lynched by a crowd. Cowley decides to go back to Texas to be arrested.

Reviews

Scott Weinberg claimed in the Apollo Movie Guide that director Alfonso Arau made his film under the influence of LSD . Almost every scene is "bizarre", none makes the film even remotely entertaining. Weinberg praised the top-class cast ("strong cast"). For Prisma-Online , Picking Up the Pieces is “bland slapstick” that “can only convince in a few moments” despite a brilliant cast. For the lexicon of international film , the film is “a shrill comedy full of blasphemous peaks that rarely leaves the depths of clothing”.

Web links

• Picking Up the Pieces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Picking Up the Pieces at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Filming locations for Picking Up the Pieces
2. ^ Scott Weinberg: Picking Up the Pieces. In: apolloguide.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007 ; accessed on September 25, 2017 (English). 
3. ^ Picking Up the Pieces. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 25, 2017 . 
4. ↑ I only dismantled my wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 25, 2017 .