Cookie

1989
15
1h 34m

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5.4/10

1.6K

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A paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.

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A paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to ja... Read allA paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.A paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Lenore's apartment scenes were filmed in Sunnyside, NY. The apartment was converted from a existing dental office. The dentist was paid a hefty price for the use of his office for a one month period. When the filming was over the distraught dentist claimed damages and said it wasn't worth the price to close his practice for the filming.

Goofs
The briefcase Cookie is to deliver to Atlantic City is supposed to contain $2,000,000. That would require 20,000 $100 bills that would weigh 20,000 grams, or just over 44 pounds (~20 kg). It is clearly lighter than that and is too small to contain 200 packs of 100 x $100 bills.

Quotes
Dominick 'Dino' Capisco: Take the gum out of your mouth when you're talking to me. You look like a hooker.

Crazy credits
Major sections of the closing credits are each headed by graphic icons for the respective departments.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Casualties of War/Rude Awakening/Uncle Buck/The Abyss/A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)

Soundtracks
Vesti la giubba
(from opera "Pagliacci")
Performed by Mario Del Monaco
Composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo (uncredited)
Courtesy of London Records
(A Division of PylyGram Classics, Inc.)

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Featured review

6/10

liked the actors but unimaginative story

The movie starts with Carmela 'Cookie' Voltecki (Emily Lloyd) mourning at the funeral of Dominick Capisco (Peter Falk) and then it flashbacks a few months earlier. Cookie is a wild rebellious teen. Her mother Lenore (Dianne Wiest) is the secret mistress of imprisoned gangster and her father Dominick Capisco. He's getting paroled and forces Cookie to get a mob job. She eventually becomes his driver. Bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) is his unhappily mob-marriage wife. He wants his money and get out of the business but his partner Carmine (Michael V. Gazzo) has squeezed him out. U.S. Attorney Richie Segretto (Bob Gunton) has set his sights on Dominick mistakenly assumes him to have returned as a mob boss.

This is directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen. This female group has created a mob movie with a few quirks, little tension and even fewer surprises. It's led by two mannered performances from rebellious Emily Lloyd and old tough guy Peter Falk. I like both actors but the movie is rather forgettable. It's not as quirky or funny as it thinks it is. The writing really doesn't have an edge. It has a few action scenes but the intensity is not terribly high. There are better mob comedies elsewhere.