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Cookie's Fortune A comedy about an elderly woman who commits suicide - and the efforts of her relatives to make it appear to be murder. 209 IMDb 6.8 1 h 58 min 1999
Nov 16, 1999 · Cookie's Fortune begins beautifully, as handyman Willis (Charles S. Dutton) staggers home from a blues club in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the wee hours of a warm night, he has an affectionate chat with elderly matriarch Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (the grand Patricia Neal) and the gentle history of their friendship is ...
Apr 2, 1999 · We don't have any reviews for Cookie's Fortune. Media. Most Popular; Videos 1; Backdrops 6; Posters 11; Status Released Original Language English. Budget $10,000,000.00.
A 1999 Robert Altman film, Cookie's Fortune takes place in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi.It's a simple, quiet place with peaceful, kind residents.. On the eve of Easter Sunday, pushy community theater director Camille Dixon (Glenn Close) and her shy sister Cora (Julianne Moore) are shocked to find that their Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) committed suicide.
"Cookie's Fortune'' is Robert Altman's sunniest film, a warm-hearted comedy that somehow manages to deal with death and murder charges without even containing a real villain. True, the Glenn Close character comes close to villainy by falsifying a death scene, but since she's in the middle of directing the Easter play at her church, maybe it's ...
Cookie's Fortune will probably disappoint anyone expecting to laugh, as its categorization as a 'black comedy' is by all means overstated. What we've got here is a good ol' fashioned potboiler where a death of a matriarch sends ripples through a rural Mississippi community.
In a small Mississippi town, Cookie Orcutt discreetly kills herself in order to join her late husband. But her uptight daughter can't stand the idea of a suicide in the family, and rearranges the evidence to seem like murder. The investigation of the alleged murder reveals hidden secrets about...
