Directed By:Billy Wilder
Written By:Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
The Fortune Cookie
Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
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Generally Favorable
7.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
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90
The Fortune Cookie is Billy Wilder's best picture since The Apartment, his funniest since Some Like It Hot.
75
Despite some minor flaws, The Fortune Cookie is a very satisfying film.
70
Wildly funny in spots, but nihilistic in the extreme.
63
The 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.
63
Sometimes uproarious but overly sentimental. [14 July 2003, p.1D]
60
Rarely has screen satire been so bleak or so mercilessly funny.
40
A sour, visually ugly comedy from director Billy Wilder and his co-writer, I. A. L. Diamond, which gets worse as it goes along -- more cynical and more sanctimonious.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
82% Positive
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Jan 21, 2020
9
I truly believe this is one of his best. I love Wilder, he is my favourite director and I've seen all his films, very few of which disappoint. Although this is towards the end of his career, I think it highlights everything to love about a Wilder film, funny, witty and infinitely entertaining. It might not quite have the emotion of The Apartment or the edge of Double Indemnity, but as a piece of entertainment it does not fail and certainly his most underrated films. In fact one of the most underrated of all time. Would love to see this film praised alongside the classics.
Production Company:
- Phalanx-Jalem
- The Mirisch Corporation
Release Date:Oct 19, 1966
Duration:2 h 5 m
Tagline:SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY!
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
