# Help Identifying Movie: mother suicide, coverup
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-movie-mother-suicide-coverup/478011
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 20, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-movie-mother-suicide-coverup/478011 "2008-12-20T01:14:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-movie-mother-suicide-coverup/478011/1 "2008-12-20T01:14:42Z")
I’m either going senile, or the Intertubes are conspiring against me. I cannot find the name of this movie, despite hours of searching.
The synopsis of the plot: an elderly woman commits suicide by handgun after laying in bed with her favorite, very valuable locket/necklace. The jewelry had been given to her years ago by her late husband, but later in the movie was revealed to be near-worthless. Daughter #1, upon finding her, makes things appear to be a murder to avoid embarrassment. Suspicion falls on an older black man that had been with the family for years. Daughter #1 also is very domineering and controlling over daughter #2. It’s a comedy, of course.
I believe daughter #3 was played by Parker Posey; a mechanic that recently returned to town and reconnected with her ex-beau, a local cop.
I was pretty confident that indeed it was Parker Posey, but a search of her filmography doesn’t turn up a movie that sounds similar.
The film is somewhat-recent; let’s say roughly 1995-2005.
I’m really going nuts trying to find the name of this film. Either I can’t search worth squat, or I’m conflating two films together.
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### Author:  [@caused\_two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caused_two)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-movie-mother-suicide-coverup/478011/2 "2008-12-20T02:01:28Z")
Sounds like “Cookie’s Fortune”
> **[Cookie's Fortune (1999) ⭐ 6.8 | Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126250/)**
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> 1h 58m | PG-13
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### Author:  [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-movie-mother-suicide-coverup/478011/3 "2008-12-20T02:05:44Z")
A hole in one, _caused two_…that’s it (substitute my Parker Posey for Liv Tyler).
I’m glad you stuck around for six months to make your first post. You have my appreciation…I really was going nuts.