Cookie's Fortune (1999)

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Apr 2, 1999

Running Time: 118 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, Courtney B Vance, Donald Moffat, Lyle Lovett

director: Robert Altman, Stephen Altman

In a small Mississippi town, Cookie Orcutt discreetly kills herself in order to join her late husband. But her uptight daughter can't stand the idea of a suicide in the family, and rearranges the evidence to seem like murder. The investigation of the alleged murder reveals hidden secrets about the people in the close-knit community.

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