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Is he a spy? A security risk? Is he unfaithful? Or is he a nice, normal shnook - out to make a million bucks by sheer accident!
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Comedy - 1966
The Fortune Cookie
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TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
Director:
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Billy Wilder
Cast:
,
Les Tremayne
,
Jack Lemmon
,
Walter Matthau
,
Cliff Osmond
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Ron Rich
,
Judi West
,
Lurene Tuttle
,
Harry Holcombe
,
Marge Redmond
,
Ann Shoemaker

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Details

Runtime:
125 min
Release date:
19 Oct 1966
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$3,705,000
Revenue:
$6,800,000
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 5 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
...another bittersweet comedy commentary on contemporary US mores.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
15 Aug 2007
fresh:
Wildly funny in spots...
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
15 Aug 2007
fresh:
Mr. Wilder's last film and a comedy of unrelieved vulgarity, but it has style and taste.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
The friction between the laughs and the cynicism generates more heat than most Hollywood comedies even aim at...
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
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