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Jan 1, 1999 · Cookie’s Fortune Review. When the matriarch of a Southern family commits suicide, her best friend and handyman is suspected of having killed her. It falls to her wild great-grandneice to find out...
Cookie's Fortune stands below the director's best work - it lacks the bite of The Player and the scope of his ensemble pictures - but, as a source of light pleasure and solid laughs, it delivers. This particular cookie may not fill the belly, but it goes down easy.
- Robert Altman
- PG-13
- Glenn Close
Cookie's Fortune is a wittily diagrammed portrait of a small town shaken to its roots by this deceptive calamity. The movie, though, never really becomes more than a diagram.
Apr 2, 1999 · Won't go down as Robert Altman's most memorable movie. But it's a pleasant affair, whose greatest assets are its unhurried, benevolent atmosphere and the quiet, gem-like moments that occur among its characters. Read More.
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- Robert Altman
- PG-13
- Glenn Close
Robert Altman's gift for diffuse storytelling is employed to breezily enjoyable effect in Cookie's Fortune, a mirthful caper that layers on a generous helping of Southern charm. Read Critics...
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- Robert Altman
- PG-13
- Glenn Close
Reviews. Cookie’s Fortune (Robert Altman, USA, 1999) Whether Robert Altman tackles drama or comedy, his vision of the world invariably ends up seeming bleak. For thirty-five years, Altman has painted a rich canvas in which people are always disconnected from each other and from themselves.
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Neal plays Cookie, a rich widow who misses her husband fiercely. Glenn Close is Camille Dixon, her niece, who discovers Cookie's dead body and rearranges the death scene to make it look like a break-in and a murder.
