1999 · comedy · drama · ensemble
Cookie's Fortune
Directed by Robert Altman1h 58m1999
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Our read: Cookie's Fortune (1999) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · ensemble entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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