First Cow (2020) on Netflix
Otis "Cookie" Figowitz, a cook in 1820s Oregon Country, befriends King-Lu, a Chinese immigrant in hiding. The two steal milk from the region's only cow to bake and sell cakes.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.1/1024,852 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
The fur trappers moving through 1820s Oregon Country keep after their cook, Cookie, to find them more food. One night Cookie lets a Chinese immigrant named King-Lu, on the run, sleep in his tent, and the two meet again at a fort, where Cookie moves into Lu's cabin. Lu talks of starting a farm, Cookie of a bakery or hotel in San Francisco. The outpost has just received its first milk cow, kept at night outside the house of the English Chief Factor, its wealthiest trader. Lu argues that poor men need a fortune or a crime to get ahead. Remembering his time as a baker's assistant in Boston, Cookie proposes using the cow's milk, and the pair slip onto the Chief Factor's land after dark to milk the cow.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about First Cow (2020)
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- The milk cow in First Cow is played by Evie, a real Jersey cow. Director and co-writer Kelly Reichardt said they narrowed the choice down because they wanted a Jersey for its physical size and because the breed has "these huge eyes."
- The pedigree given to the cow in First Cow, "half Alderney of Isigny" and "half Froment du Léon from the province of Brittany," points to a breed that no longer exists: the Alderney, from the British Channel Islands, died out in the 20th century when it was absorbed into the Guernsey and Jersey breeds.
