Cookie's Fortune
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| Cookie's Fortune | |
 Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Robert Altman |
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| Produced by | Willi Baer |
| Written by | Anne Rapp |
| Starring | Glenn Close Julianne Moore Liv Tyler Chris O'Donnell Charles S. Dutton |
| 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 |
Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Liv Tyler and Chris O'Donnell. It portrays small town Southern life in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the movie was mostly filmed.
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[edit] Plot
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.
[edit] Location
The film was shot on location in the small rural town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Many of the homes from the film are still present, including Cookie's home.
[edit] Cast
- Glenn Close as Camille Dixon
- Julianne Moore as Cora Duvall
- Liv Tyler as Emma Duvall
- Chris O'Donnell as Jason Brown
- Charles S. Dutton as Willis Richland
- Patricia Neal as Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt
[edit] External links
- Cookie's Fortune at the Internet Movie Database
- Cookie's Fortune at Allmovie
- Holly Springs, Mississippi Official Website
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