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Cookie's Fortune
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| Cookie's Fortune | |
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 Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Robert Altman |
| Produced by | Willi Baer |
| Written by | Anne Rapp |
| Starring | Glenn Close Julianne Moore Liv Tyler Chris O'Donnell |
| Music by | David A. Stewart |
| Cinematography | Toyomichi Kurita |
| Editing by | Abraham Lim |
| Distributed by | New Films International |
| Release date(s) |  January 22, 1999 (Sundance Film Festival)April 2 (wide)  February 20 (Berlin International Film Festival)August 26 (wide)  April 7  April 9 June 24 August 6 August 20 August 27 November 26 January 20, 2000 February 19 April 5, 2001 |
| Running time | 118 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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| IMDb profile | |
Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles Dutton, Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Liv Tyler and Chris O'Donnell. It portrays small town Southern life in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The script was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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 closet and kill herself. Discovered by her pretentious playwright niece, Camille, (Glenn Close) and her eccentrically odd and adorably shy younger sister, Cora, (played by Julianne Moore) 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 just so happens to have cleaned the guns pretty much every day of his life. What follows is a very interesting tale of how a shocking incident casts a ripple among a group of small-town oddballs. The ensemble cast includes Ned Beatty, Courtney B. Vance, Liv Tyler, James Cromwell, and Lyle Lovett.
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