I'll tell you why so serious

Good start, but then it gets ruined

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I can't believe another user rated this film highly simply because of the closing song? After admitting that everything about the film was bad. Looks like Susan Seidelman made it with costumes she had left over from "Desperately Seeking Susan". The script by cheezmaestra Nora Ephron (You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle) is so bad I can't begin to tell you. I only sat through this because I will watch ANY film starring Peter Falk, but the picture still stinks like if someone had saved that wrapped up package of fish from THE GODFATHER. Good luck making it through this film until the end without turning it off. If you find this on an old VHS tape for fifty cents, don't waste your money.

There isn't a great deal to say, maybe the big fat warning about it as a movie has absolutely no relation to comedy. So don't you ever make the same mistake that I did and let the names of (Peter Falk), (Jerry Lewis) or even (Nora Ephron) fool you and lead you to a wrong picture ! It's very average, and too bad as long as we speak about (Adrian Pasdar) with his everlasting coldness moreover memorably strange eyebrows this time. Plus (Emily Lloyd) whom actually looked like she's copying (Madonna) with the same outfits, the same awful acting however without a millimeter of her sexuality ! Not to mention how (Jerry Lewis) seemed totally wasted, I felt bad that there were some potentials in here and some places to make good comic ironies but the whole thing was just the smart hoax and the beginning of a peaceful natural relationship between one father and his daughter, yet even this as a drama wasn't that good at all so the love story between Cookie and Mr. eyebrows from hell ! I want to know why they didn't call it : (The Return of Cookie's Father), (Cookie & Father), or (Cookie & Father Meet A Freak Named Vito) ! Actually she wasn't that main character because of some reasons on the top of them is such a script which interested in a lot of things except Cookie herself ! The charming (Peter Falk) did a great job; that made the movie sort of watchable. So as a low budget crime movie from the good old 1980s with the lesser amount of blood and cursing you may deem it fine, as long as you forget all about some things like Cookie...The personality and the actress. So watch it and "forget about it" !.. And I do mean it literally !Inflated P.S : They wrote on the poster (so boldly I suppose !) : "A Delicious New Comedy" !!? Sure at the time it was new. But what about Comedy and DELICIOUS ??!!

The story was just O.K. as an action comedy. Peter Falk did O.K. job as a boss of Mafia but not as good as his famous role, Columbo.What I want to emphasize here is that I found Emily Lloyd, who played the hidden daughter of the boss, is an incredible actress. She is genius! I instantly became a big fan of hers as soon as she came up to the screen. I hope she appears on lots more movies.

It was planned as a feel good movie like 'Desperately Seeking Susan' but in fact it is unfortunately only goofy and boring. I don't know why such a accomplished writer like Nora Ephron had written such a bad screenplay and the poor actors and actresses like Ricki Lake, Dianne Wiest, Peter Falk, Brenda Vaccaro, Lionel Stander or Jerry Lewis have had no chance to show their talents. And poor Emily Lloyd. I think it costs her a lot of sympathy in Hollywood and have had prevented to become such a big star like Gwyneth Paltrow or Winona Ryder in the USA.