Cookie
United States
1989
94 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
Cookie Voltecki (Emily Lloyd) is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
Cookie’s mother, Lenore Voltecki (Dianne Weist), has been Dino’s longtime mistress. Dino’s actual wife Bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) has, he thinks, been kept in the dark about Dino’s mistress and his daughter. Dino decides that the best way to get to know Cookie is to hire her as his chauffeur. With her ears to the conspiracies floating around Dino, she quickly discovers that her father’s old crony, Carmine (Michael V. Gazzo), has been swindling him and that Dino’s life is in jeopardy. —Wikipedia
Director
Susan Seidelman
American filmmaker Susan Seidelman majored in art and fashion design at Drexel University. She worked at an independent TV station in Philadelphia before enrolling at NYU’s film school. Her feminist-oriented student films, made between 1976 and 1977, won several awards and plenty of industry attention. Seidelman’s first feature, the independently produced Smithereens (1983), made very little headway in mainstream theaters, but was a hit on the festival circuit. On the strength of Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Seidelman was lauded as one of Hollywood’s few “bankable” female directors; the film’s success was probably due more to the supporting performance of Madonna than to its director. Seidelman’s next two films, Making Mr Right (1987) and Cookie (1989), failed to match the standard set by Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1989’s She-Devil, Seidelman attempted to do for Roseanne Barr what she had done for Madonna — – that is, transform Roseanne into a viable film personality. But She… read more
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