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Although this Robert Altman film is listed as a comedy, it is about the suicide or murder of an old woman in a small town in the southern US. It has an all-star cast: Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Liv Tyler, that handsome McConnaghy lad, and others. But it is slow moving—seemingly pointless for the first part, and a bit clunky with explanations in the last part. The best thing about Cookie’s Fortune (1999) is the realistic way it mixes serious official procedures like the police investigation with eccentric, emotion-driven behaviour by the people.
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