{"id":317057,"date":"2026-08-09T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317057\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:50:09","slug":"its-wafer-thin-mint-audio-film-review-of-cookie-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317057\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Wafer-Thin Mint! Audio Film Review of \u2018Cookie Queens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodchicago.com\/print\/reviews\/40047\/it-s-wafer-thin-mint-audio-film-review-of-cookie-queens\" title=\"Display a printer-friendly version of this page.\" class=\"print-page\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; window.open(this.href); return false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-cf-modified-b77fc13a0d6cf7555975fd41-=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/print_icon.gif\" alt=\"Printer-friendly version\" title=\"Printer-friendly version\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"print-icon print-icon-margin\" \/>Printer-friendly version<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodchicago.com\/printmail\/reviews\/40047\/it-s-wafer-thin-mint-audio-film-review-of-cookie-queens\" title=\"Send this page by email.\" class=\"print-mail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mail_icon.gif\" alt=\"E-mail page to friend\" title=\"E-mail page to friend\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"print-icon print-icon-margin\" \/>E-mail page to friend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/film4.jpg\" alt=\"HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 4.0\/5.0\" align=\"RIGHT\" \/><br \/>Rating: 4.0\/5.0<\/p>\n<p> CHICAGO \u2013 Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new release COOKIE QUEENS, a documentary about four Girl Scouts \u2013 at various levels \u2013 applying their sales moxie during the annual Girl Scout Cookie fundraiser. In select theaters on August 7th, see local listings. <\/p>\n<p>The four Girl Scout cookie queens are Ara the Youngest at five years olds (amazing!) as she sets a modest goal and learns how to manage expectations. Shannon Elizabeth is a Texas gal who is constantly on the move, taking karate and convincing her middle class parents that a big order will get her to cookie camp. Nikki is from a Girl Scout family \u2026 her sisters were cookie selling champs and she enlists them to do the same for her. And finally Olive, an uber achiever \u2026 she eventually desires to be on the Supreme Court \u2026 who is the cookie queen of North Carolina, with an estimate of 38,000 boxes of sales in her \u201ccareer.\u201d They all are in it to win it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/004aCookie404.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\" alt=\"CQueens\" title=\"CQueens\" \/><br \/>COOKIE QUEENS<br \/>Photo credit: Roadside Attractions<\/p>\n<p>Audio Film Review of COOKIE QUEENS by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>COOKIE QUEENS is in select theaters on August 7th, see local listings. Directed by Alysa Nahmias. Rated \u201cG\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Printer-friendly versionE-mail page to friend Rating: 4.0\/5.0 CHICAGO \u2013 Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[119510,1619,35324,119512,119506,17432,119503,96368,35666,9,24,63592,63,119511,119505,119504,122,124,123,66647,2546,119514,87766,119509,119513,119507,27929,119508],"class_list":["post-317057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-ara","tag-audio","tag-cookie-queens","tag-cookies","tag-eddie-volkman","tag-girl-scouts","tag-hollywoodchicago-com-content","tag-monroe","tag-movie-review","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nikki","tag-nyc","tag-olive","tag-pat-uber-tv","tag-patrick-mcdonald","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-roadside-attractions","tag-sales","tag-samoas","tag-shannon-elizabeth","tag-the-9-6-7","tag-thin-mints","tag-wbgr-fm","tag-wisconsin","tag-wssr-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}