Cookie's Fortune (1999)

Directed by

Robert Altman

Genre

comedy film, crime film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 198 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy older woman in a small Mississippi town takes her own life. Her eccentric family members disagree on how to handle the situation and one of them tries to cover it up as a murder.

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What happens

Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 American independent Southern Gothic black comedy crime film directed by Robert Altman, and starring Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, and Chris O'Donnell. It follows a dysfunctional family in small-town Mississippi and their various responses to the suicide of their wealthy aunt, some of them turning criminal. Musicians Lyle Lovett and Ruby Wilson have minor supporting parts in the film. Filming took place on location in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the film is set. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1999, and was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 1999. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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