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Robert Altman,
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: Polygram USA Video
: Comedies, Dysfunctional Families
: 118 min.
: English
: English, Spanish, French
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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 pretentious would-be artist staging an amateur production of Salome at a local church, and Cora Julianne Moore), her less than enthusiastic leading lady. Willis (Charles S. Dutton), the caretaker of Cookie's rambling mansion, tries to persuade her sweet but aimless grand-niece, Emma (Liv Tyler), to move in with her, but she's more interested in her on-again, off-again romance with local cop Jason (Chris O'Donnell). Typical of Altman's work, Cookie's Fortune weaves together a number of different plot lines with relaxed grace, and features an impressive cast, including Ned Beatty, Lyle Lovett, and Courtney B. Vance. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| Mississippi Learning
by squad
August 3, 2004 - 12:53 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| A very even-handed movie with believable characters and a nod to a healthy examination of miscegenation that runs through the blood of more than a few. In fact this movie and the Robert Duvall film "Family Thing" bring to light a genealogist's treasure trove, just when we think we have traced things to perfection, up pops a truer and more refreshing view of who we are. The bulk "Cookie's Fortune" is a movie about a small southern town and a small incident blown way out of proportion by the fundamentally mad Glen Close character. Standing alone as a comedy portraying realistically the south of my experience it neither condescends nor mocks, but rather is lovingly drawn. The film makes a full circle, ending well, and so did not let me down. My only criticism would be of the Lyle Lovett character, who did not figure into the story significantly and leaves me wondering why he was included, but this is a small matter and didn't detract significantly. |
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