Product Details

• Actors: Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd, Michael V. Gazzo, Brenda Vaccaro
• Directors: Susan Seidelman
• Writers: Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron
• Producers: Susan Seidelman, Alice Arlen, Jennifer Ogden, Laurence Mark, Nora Ephron
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302877563
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,901 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Comedy about a young, lively Italian-American woman and her ex-convict father who sting the Mafia and the law.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good fun, January 22, 2004

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Sinitta (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cookie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is good fun. The actors are great: Emily Lloyd, Peter Falk and Adrian Pasdar. It's Peter Falk's typical role and if you like him in it, you'll like him here. Emily should have had more movies because she is great - and finally Adrian Pasdar gets a real chance in a movie. Good entertainment.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cute versin of the mafia, March 27, 2000

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R. Ragas (Hayward, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cookie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A great sunday afternoon fun story.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One tough Cookie, August 29, 2008

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cookie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

COOKIE (1989) stars British-born Emily Lloyd as the hard-edged daughter of a recently paroled Mafia boss (Peter Falk); her mother (Dianne Wiest) is the man's mistress. Cookie (Carmela) is too much like her old man ('Dapper Dino' Capisco) for comfort-- she has his toughness, courage under fire and violent tendencies. Dad chooses to ignore these however and berates the girl for her "early-Madonna" fashion sense and trampy behavior, which makes their initial reunion after his 13 year "stretch" a rocky one.

As with any crime family story, money is a factor here. Dino's partner (Carmine) sold their business venture while Dino was in jail, and refuses to give up half the money. The rest of the story involves double-crosses and redouble-crosses that pit Cookie and her father against the mob and an ambitious D.A.

Considering the subject matter, COOKIE is a pleasant movie scripted by Nora Ephron. A cast of familiar faces, like Michael V. Gazzo as the chiseling Carmine (he was Frankie Pantangelo in "Godfather II"), and Jerry Lewis as the mobster who bought out the business, keep things lively throughout. Watch for a pre-diet Ricki Lake as Cookie's girlfriend.

(Not available on DVD.)


Emily Lloyd portrayed Bruce Willis's daughter in IN COUNTRY(1989), which is the story of an ex-Vietnam vet who's disabled by PTSD.


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(5.2) Cookie (1989) - Peter Falk/Dianne Wiest/Emily Lloyd/Michael V. Gazzo/Brenda Vaccaro/Lionel Stander/Jerry Lewis/Ricki Lake/Joy Behar