Cookie’s Fortune
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman’s death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
- Director:Robert Altman
- Genre:Comedy / Drama
- Runtime:113 minutes
Cast
Russell Crowe : Maximus
Joaquin Phoenix : Commodus
Connie Nielsen : Lucilla
Oliver Reed : Proximo
Richard Harris : Marcus Aurelius
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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 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, and Lyle Lovett. Read more
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