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The Fortune Cookie

7.2/ 10

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1966

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125 min

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Comedy
Drama
Crime

Overview

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.

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Keywords

shadowing
american football
brother-in-law
wheelchair
honesty
insurance fraud
cinematographer
fortune cookie
private investigator
black and white
surveillance
ex-wife
man in wheelchair
cleveland browns
american football player
cleveland, ohio

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8.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

July 2, 2019

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8/10

Morality and cynicism not quite the bedfellows Wilder intended? Wilder's response to his previous film Kiss Me Stupid's criticism was intended to be a bitter attack on American morality, yet many critics of the time felt Wilder chickened out by sweetening the finale. If he actualy did this is obv

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