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Southern comedy - Cookie’s
Fortune at The Theatre Sept. 24
BY ROSIE DAY
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer “Cookie’s Fortune” will be shown at The Theatre on Gay Street, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. “Buena Vista Social Club", originally planned for this date will instead be shown Oct. 22. Both great films. “Cookie’s Fortune” has been requested by many of the regular movie patrons in the our county and is certainly worth a short trip and five dollars. The famous director, Robert Altman, keeps a light touch throughout this film - one of his most enjoyable. And, he has a terrific all-star ensemble to work with: Glenn Close, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, Ned Beatty, Liv Tyler, Chris O’Donnell and Lyle Lovett. This is a rural comedy of manners told with great style and warmth. After a Mississippi matriarch (Neal) decides to kill herself and rejoin her late, lamented husband in Heaven, her genteel niece Camille (Close) disguises the suicide to look like a murder to ease the shame of it all. But that means that someone has to be arrested, and the only logical suspect is Willis (Dutton), a man that everybody in town likes and respects. Even the sheriff knows that Willis could not have done such a crime (“I’ve fished with him”, says the sheriff) so he joins him in the cell to sit and play Scrabble, waiting for the truth to come out. (PG-13, 118 minutes, English, no subtitles)
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