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The Fortune Cookie
Comedy
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy sharp, humane farce about opportunism, legal manipulation, and flawed people stumbling toward decency.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, bittersweet
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- greed, deception, honesty, romantic reconciliation, moral compromise
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, urban sports venues and ordinary city interiors
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Where to watch
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