Miss Fortune Cookie

When David Douglas puts his family-owned Chinese restaurant on the auctionblock, his rebellious younger daughter, Sue, recruits the help of Will, the restaurantmanager, to keep her grandmother from being forced from the restaurant andsent to a retirement home. The only way for Sue to conjure up millions of dollars in a few weeks is to setup a bogus on-line company to enter the auction in a bidding war with the giantcorporation intent on buying the restaurant s property. To raise the seed money to join the auction, Sue begins writing fortune cookiemessages for her friends. When all of the messages come true, hundreds of fortuneseekers descend on the restaurant all wanting to have their fortunes told. Underintense pressure, Sue claims she s not the fortune teller, just the transcriber. Thatfabrication doesn t go well when desperate people conclude that Sue s grandmothermust be the real fortune teller. Sue s hesitant accomplice, Will, the restaurant manager, is the voice of reason andcaution, but he s no match for Sue s determination to build a new restaurant andsave Grandma. Although Sue s heart is in the right place, her schemes result inconstant chaos and misfortune.