Picking Up the Pieces (2000)

95 min · Dark Comedy, comedy film, fantasy film

Popularity4/5

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Alfonso Arau

Cast

Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Alfonso Arau, Brian Brophy, Elliott Gould, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andy Dick, Fran Drescher, Cheech Marin, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Schwimmer, Kiefer Sutherland

The story

Tex is a butcher who kills his unfaithful wife Candy. 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.

Catalogue themes and tags

Abgetrennte Hand, Butcher's Shop, Dismemberment of Human Beings, Ermordung, Gegenwart, Husband Wife Relationship, Hysterical Wife, Kleinstadt, Metzger, Mexico, Murder of Wife, Reliquie, Untreue, Violent Husband, Wunder

Genres

Dark Comedy, comedy film, fantasy film

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