Cookie's Fortune

Viewed with the Amazing Edith’s *Collab Film Group*. A unique dramedy ensemble piece that embraces small town charm from Robert Altman, it bleeds with generational family issues successfully crossing over racial lines. Very much akin to (one of) John Sayles’ finest works,…

Ziglet_mir

A typically brilliant Altman touch: The central mystery hinges on a gun taken from a cabinet with a door that refuses to stay shut. The characters close the door and then a few seconds later it opens again.  The door is important to the plot; the fact that it refuses to…

Matt Singer

Even as a minor Robert Altman work, this film has its charms. By this point in his career, Altman's command of a large ensemble cast was so well-honed that he had moved past the stage of showing off his skills. Instead, a modest portrayal of human missteps turns out to be…

nick

7th Robert Altman (after The Player, M*A*S*H, Nashville, 3 Women, Short Cuts and Gosford Park) A shambolic stroll back down to the Deep South (the second such visit for the Collab), Cookie’s Fortune marks my first Altman in going on eight years. Happily, it’s a better…

Doc Lyon

I guess Cookie’s Fortune would almost be the definition of “minor” Altman. While there’s a strong ensemble cast of about ten actors, the scope of the story is narrowed down to a small, quiet Southern town. But Altman is such a great storyteller that, in less than two hours,…

DallasFrance

Southern crime farce with every actor going two notes higher (except for Dutton who goes two notes lower), deep family secrets revelations, a treasure that is not, a non-murder, a theater subplot that is there so we know what it is really about. Altman treats it like a…

Filipe Furtado

Red, White, and Bayou Cookie's Fortune will probably disappoint anyone expecting to laugh, as its categorization as a 'black comedy' is by all means overstated. What we've got here is a good ol' fashioned potboiler where a death of a matriarch sends ripples through a…

MushiMinion

This is Americana.

Taylor Baker

(Effort to catch up with the Collab) Cookie’s Fortune starts out like a traditional “multiple strand” narrative, which discouraged me when it took a while to get going, still dipping in each plot for a mere couple minutes before setting up more somewhere else. Eventually I…

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