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Robert Altman directed this bittersweet ensemble piece about an eccentric and entangled group of family and friends living in the Deep South. Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is the widowed matriarch of a small-town Mississippi family, which includes her nieces Camille (Glenn Close), a ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1999 | Running Time: 118 minutes
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A lonely widow kills herself with her friend's gun, and her daughter arranges the scene to look like a murder in order to avoid the disgracing stigma of suicide. On the surface, Cookie's Fortune sounds like pretty morose stuff, but in the hands of Robert Altman, who sets the film with the same pace as a muggy Southern afternoon, it all plays out in a leisurely, lighthearted manner. In traditional Altman style, the film is brimming with engaging characters, and the script by Anne Rapp finds humor ...more
- Glenn Close - Camille Orcutt
- Julianne Moore - Cora Duvall
- Liv Tyler - Emma Duvall
- Chris O'Donnell - Jason Brown
- Charles S. Dutton - Willis Richland
- Patricia Neal - Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt
- Ned Beatty - Lester Boyle
- Courtney Vance - Otis Tucker
- Donald Moffat - Jack Palmer
- Lyle Lovett - Manny Hood
- Danny Darst - Billy Cox
- Matt Malloy - Eddie "The Expert" Pitts
- Randle Mell - Patrick Freeman
- Niecy Nash - Wanda Carter
- Robert Altman - Director
- Willi Baer - Executive Producer
- Robert Altman - Producer
- Etchie Stroh - Producer
- Anne Rapp - Screenwriter
- Richard Johnson - Art Director
- Pam Dixon - Casting
- David Levy - Co-producer
- James Mclindon - Co-producer
- Dona Granata - Costume Designer
- Tommy Thompson - First Assistant Director
- Stephen Altman - Second Unit Director
- Abraham Lim - Editor
- Dave Stewart - Composer (Music Score)
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