Cookie's Fortune
"Welcome to Holly Springs... home of murder, mayhem and catfish enchiladas."
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
"Welcome to Holly Springs... home of murder, mayhem and catfish enchiladas."
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Glenn Close
Camille Dixon
Julianne Moore
Cora Duvall
Liv Tyler
Emma Duvall
Chris O'Donnell
Jason Brown
Charles S. Dutton
Willis Richland
Patricia Neal
Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt
Ned Beatty
Lester Boyle
Courtney B. Vance
Otis Tucker
Donald Moffat
Jack Palmer
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!