The Fortune Cookie
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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10/19/1966Runtime
125 minsGenres
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A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
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A clever con-man comedy with heart, where a cameraman's scheme to win back his ex-wife through faked injuries spirals into an unexpectedly tender examination of guilt and conscience. It balances sharp satirical humor about American greed with genuine sympathy for the collateral damage of deception.
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