Cookie's Fortune (1999) - Movie Details

The ingredients of an archetypal southern town (the blues, catfish, and scrabble), a deliciously chosen cast, and the creative skills of Robert Altman make for a wonderfully engaging film that adds to the accolades that have distinguished his outstanding career. Delectably combining farce, moral passion play, and social drama with a soupcon of mystery/suspense, Altman drives us to his grandly executed finale with a constantly inventive comedic theatricality. Generations of the Orcutt family have inhabited...

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Cookie's Fortune is one of those films that never gets much publicity but manages to hit the big time theaters and stay out for a surprisingly long amount of time. I had heard nothing about this film except that it was good - I did not even know who was in it, let alone what the film was about. But it has an all star cast, a good story, and interesting characters. Full movie review »

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