Odd would be the best would to describe it, even the cast of characters is strange and quite mixed.. why some people actually decided to play in this movie is beyond me!

what a crazy cast of characters! fun to watch as arau's direction is interesting. very strange but also creepy.

An underseen and ever-so-slightly underrated black comedy from Mexican director Alfonso Arau. Set in the small town of El Nino, New Mexico, it has the townspeople discovering a severed hand which can apparantly perform miracles. But, the hand belongs... (read more) An underseen and ever-so-slightly underrated black comedy from Mexican director Alfonso Arau. Set in the small town of El Nino, New Mexico, it has the townspeople discovering a severed hand which can apparantly perform miracles. But, the hand belongs...(read more) to Candy Cowley (Sharon Stone), a wife apparantly murdered in a jealous rage by her husband Tex (Woody Allen), who lives across the border in Texas. The film is certainly not as bad as what people claim it is, (Woody is miscast), but it's a film which owes a debt to Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry. Plus, it has a brilliant supporting cast including Kiefer Sutherland, David Schwimmer, Cheech Marin, Lou Diamond Phillips and Elliot Gould. Plus, it's beautiful, colour-drenched cinematography by Vittorio Storaro makes up for alot of the film's faults.

i dont know what the point was but it has a great cast but some pretty ropey plot blines and woody allen is as awful as he ever has been in it.

"Let's explore the topics of religion, murder, marriage, capitalism and prostitution...and still try to keep things light." This film gets some interesting points for effort, but it absolutely bit off more than it could chew. The crude and juvenile h... (read more) "Let's explore the topics of religion, murder, marriage, capitalism and prostitution...and still try to keep things light." This film gets some interesting points for effort, but it absolutely bit off more than it could chew. The crude and juvenile humor is actually the low point. On the bright side, Schwimmer is surprisingly good as a tortured priest.

An inexplicable horrific abomination of a film. So many great actors wasted. I'd rather watch them on the loo than watch this mess.

despite a strong cast, the film is weak, with naff jokes and loads of pointless crazy characters - some laughs, but too much woody-allen-dialogue and dollops of clichés

nice try...there are moments where it promises, but.... having woody is not enough to make a great comedy:)

This film was so under-publicised that most people don't even believe there is this Arau comedy with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone and this whole fantastic cast. It's not meant to be deep. It is meant to be deeply silly, and the result is great. Not e... (read more) This film was so under-publicised that most people don't even believe there is this Arau comedy with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone and this whole fantastic cast. It's not meant to be deep. It is meant to be deeply silly, and the result is great. Not everyone gets all the jokes, and, granted, it's not for everyone's sense of humour, but it's horribly offensive and still manages to be hilarious.