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Junebug
Why this pick
Its unhurried Southern setting, observant family friction, and dry humor share Cookie’s Fortune’s affection for flawed people without turning them into caricatures.
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MOVIE1999 1h 58m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When a small Mississippi town's wealthy dowager Jewel-Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Neal) tires of her widowed life, she decides to take one of her late-husband Buck's pistols from the gun cabinet and kill herself.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Liv Tyler
Emma Duvall
Danny Darst
Billy Cox
Randle Mell
Patrick Freeman
Anne Whitfield
Mrs. Henderson / Herodias
Red West
Mr. Henderson
Julianne Moore
Cora Duvall
Charles S. Dutton
Willis Richland
Glenn Close
Camille Dixon