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Release Date: 1999 Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Liv Tyler, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Niecy Nash, Glenn Close, Rufus Thomas, Randle Mell, Danny Darst, Donald Moffat, Lyle Lovett, Julianne Moore ...MORE
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Liv Tyler, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Niecy Nash, Glenn Close, Rufus Thomas, Randle Mell, Danny Darst, Donald Moffat, Lyle Lovett, Julianne Moore, Chris O'Donnell, Ned Beatty, Matt Malloy ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Ensemble Film, Indie, Comedy, Mystery, Domestic Comedy 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 film was mostly shot. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
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... 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 film was mostly shot. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
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 LESS
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