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Release Date: 1999
Cast: Lyle Lovett, Danny Darst, Julianne Moore, Courtney B. Vance, Matt Malloy, Glenn Close, Ned Beatty, Randle Mell, Rufus Thomas, Chris O'Donnell, Donald Moffat, Liv Tyler ...MORE
Cast: Lyle Lovett, Danny Darst, Julianne Moore, Courtney B. Vance, Matt Malloy, Glenn Close, Ned Beatty, Randle Mell, Rufus Thomas, Chris O'Donnell, Donald Moffat, Liv Tyler, Niecy Nash, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Ensemble Film, Domestic Comedy, Drama Film, Indie, Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Liv Tyler and Chris O'Donnell. It portrays small town Southern life in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the movie was mostly filmed.
When a small Mississippi town's wealthy dowager Jewel-Mae "Cookie" Orcutt tires of her widowed life, she decides to take one of her late husband Buck's pistols from the gun cabinet and kill herself. She is discovered by her pretentious playwright niece, Camille (Glenn Close), and Camille's... MORE
Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Liv Tyler and Chris O'Donnell. It portrays small town Southern life in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the movie was mostly filmed.
When a small Mississippi town's wealthy dowager Jewel-Mae "Cookie" Orcutt tires of her widowed life, she decides to take one of her late husband Buck's pistols from the gun cabinet and kill herself. She is discovered by her pretentious playwright niece, Camille (Glenn Close), and Camille's eccentrically odd and adorably shy younger sister, Cora (played by Julianne Moore), who plot to set the suicide up as a murder to preserve the family's reputation and ensconce themselves in the family mansion. The family of eccentrics is rounded out by Cora's wayward outlaw of a daughter, Emma (Liv Tyler). Chris O'Donnell plays Emma's love interest and erstwile jailer, Jason. The key suspect is Willis (Charles S. Dutton), Cookie's handyman, who happens to have cleaned the guns the night before Cookie's death. What follows is a very interesting tale of how a shocking incident casts a ripple among a LESS
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