The story is threaded together with masterful precision, Altman extracts excellent performances from the entire cast with the exception of Lyle Lovett who is just plain goofy. Charles Dutton turns in the performance of a lifetime. And the on screen chemistry between Dutton and Patricia Neal is spell binding. Ending the film seemed too difficult for Altman and so it runs past a few places where it could have stopped, but what do I know.
Review of Cookie's Fortune
