TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing an opportunity for big, easy money, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law, enters the picture. He gets Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappear and tries to rekindle their relationship. Meanwhile, the football player who hit Harry struggles with the outcome of his actions.... (Full plot summary below)
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TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing an opportunity for big, easy money, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law, enters the picture. He gets Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappear and tries to rekindle their relationship. Meanwhile, the football player who hit Harry struggles with the outcome of his actions.
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| VarietyVariety Staff...another bittersweet comedy commentary on contemporary US mores. |
| Apollo GuideKurt DahlkeMatthau is smooth, and a great physical comic. |
| Hollywood ReporterJames PowersThe Fortune Cookie is Billy Wilder's best picture since The Apartment, his funniest since Some Like It Hot. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThough not top-notch Billy Wilder, this cynical satire about an unscrupulous lawyer and a TV cameraman benefits from good acting by Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first screen teaming. |
| Chicago ReaderDon DrukerWildly funny in spots, but nihilistic in the extreme. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThe banter between Lemmon and Matthau is, as always, priceless. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe Fortune Cookie is no more sunny--and, if possible, even less romantic--than Kiss Me, Stupid, Mr. Wilder's last film and a comedy of unrelieved vulgarity, but it has style and taste. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonRarely has screen satire been so bleak or so mercilessly funny. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThe Fortune Cookie still plays as funny. Not as funny as “One, Two, Three,” his grandest farce, or the more celebrated “Some Like It Hot.” Matthau makes it amusing. But there’s just a sliver of hope and the tiniest hint of “bittersweet” about it, something Wilder occasionally allowed into his screenplays. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeGood, but probably Wilder's most overrated film. |
