Cookie by Richard Natale Susan Seidelman is back on track with Cookie. After attempting a somewhat different stylistic tone in the satirical Making Mr. Right, Seidelman has returned to the choppy, idiosyncratic giddiness of Desperately Seeking Susan. Again her main character is a misfit, the bratty illegitimate teenage daughter (Emily Lloyd) of a small-time hood (Peter Falk) with whom she has an active love/hate relationship, with the emphasis on the latter. One of the pleasures of Seidelman's films is that you never quite know where she's going. And even when the road is well-travelled--this is yet another Mafia comedy--it's the little pit stops that divert and amuse: Falk's wife, the braying Brenda Vaccaro, plays a woman who grooms stolen dogs; his mistress (Dianne Wiest) as a shrill, but completely loveable pest. As is chic among many New York-based filmmakers--Paul Morrissey, Jonathan Demme--Seidelman's Cookie is sly and amoral. She also shares the same East Coast feel for kitschy clutter and frazzled compositions. Ultimately the film is too slight and safe and you wish that Seidelman would move on to more challenging material. But in the meantime, a good time will be had by most, if not all. What did you think of this movie? Sound off in the Movie Forum.