Cookie's Fortune (1999) on Netflix
In Holly Springs, Mississippi, Jewel Mae Orcutt, called Cookie, is found dead at Easter, her death staged as a burglary. Suspicion falls on Willis Richland, her handyman and closest friend.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb6.8/1014,400 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes86%
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Plot summary
Willis Richland works as a handyman in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and looks after Jewel Mae Orcutt, the wealthy elderly woman the town calls Cookie, who lives alone in a large house. Cookie's niece Camille Dixon, who directs plays at the local church, stops by over the Easter weekend with her shy younger sister Cora to borrow a glass fruit bowl. Cora's estranged daughter Emma has recently returned to town, where Jason Brown, a sheriff's deputy, has long pursued her. Cookie is found dead, and when his fingerprints turn up on the gun she kept, the police treat him as a suspect.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Principal actors took pay cuts to appear in Cookie's Fortune, which was shot on location in Holly Springs, Mississippi during the summer of 1998.
