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Rating: 6.1/10 by 1441 users

Cocktail (1988)

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

Directing:
  • Roger Donaldson
  • Rob Cowan
  • Kim H. Winther
  • Janet Spiegel
  • Elaine Yarish
  • Renee Bodner
Writing:
  • Heywood Gould
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Jul 29, 1988

Rating: 6.1/10 by 1441 users

Alternative Title:
Коктейль - RU
Koktél - HU
花心情圣 - HK
Cocktail - ES

Country:
United States of America
Language:
Português
Español
English
Runtime: 01 hour 44 minutes
Budget: $20,000,000
Revenue: $171,504,781

Plot Keyword: new york city, jamaica, night life, bartender, ambition, rags to riches, cocktail
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Tom Cruise
Brian Flanagan
Bryan Brown
Douglas "Doug" Coughlin
Elisabeth Shue
Jordan Mooney
Kelly Lynch
Kerry Coughlin
Ron Dean
Uncle Pat
Paul Benedict
Finance Teacher
Robert Greenberg
Job Interviewer
Harvey J. Alperin
Job Interviewer
Sandra Will
Job Interviewer
Allan Wasserman
Job Interviewer
E. Hampton Beagle
Job Interviewer
Parker Whitman
Job Interviewer
Richard Livingston
Job Interviewer
Bill Bateman
Job Interviewer
Jean St. James
Job Interviewer
Rosalyn Marshall
Job Interviewer
Jeff Silverman
Job Interviewer
Rich Crater
Job Interviewer
Marykate Harris
Job Interviewer
Lew Saunders
Job Interviewer
Jack Newman
Economics Teacher
George Sperdakos
English Teacher
David Chant
Chinese Porter
Arlene Mazerolle
Second Waitress
Paul Abbott
Snotty Customer
Kelly Connell
Yuppie Poet
Luther Hansraj
Ambulance Attendant
Kenneth McGregor
Robert Powell the Sculptor
Liisa Repo-Martell
Young Couple in Deli
Adam Furfaro
Young Couple in Deli
Kim Nelles
Female Artist
Jaap Broeker
Doorman (uncredited)
Vivian Palermo
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Garry Pastore
Well Dressed Man (uncredited)
Andrew Shue
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Karen Starr
Bar Patron (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

There was something about Tom Cruise in this film that shows him at his most engaging and fun. His character "Brian" wants to get on in life - but at every turn his limited of education gets in the way. Despondent, he heads to a bar where he encounters "Doug" (Bryan Brown) and next thing we know, he is a cocktail barman. A bit slow to start off with, but soon he has the clientele eating out of his hand as his charm and cheekiness soon show he has a real skill for this job. The first half hour or so are actually quite lively and entertaining. We also get a sense of just how hard - manic, even - it is to be behind the bar in a busy venue - maybe I will show a little more patience next time I have to wait for my Sauvignon Blanc (though probably not!). The bulk of the film, though, is really weak and feeble. He falls in love, cheats, falls out of love, drops the bottle, does he or doesn't he get the girl (Elisabeth Shue)? Then the film is tinged with a little bit of tragedy just in case the fluffiness of it all was making us light-headed. The ending is sort of imposed upon us, and after 100 minutes it took it's time to deliver the obvious. If you don't drink, you'll almost certainly hate it. If you do drink, then you will probably still not rate it much, but at least you will learn how to put fruit juice in a martini!

Wuchak

**_Fun 80’s flick starts shallow, gets deeper_** Bent on financial success, a young ex-soldier (Tom Cruise) becomes an expert bartender in Manhattan while attending college in order to make it on Wall Street. Then a dream surfaces to establish a nightclub in Jamaica. Bryan Brown plays his cynical mentor while Elisabeth Shue and Lisa Banes are on hand as romantic interests. “Cocktail” (1988) is an entertaining Cruise-led 80’s flick that starts energetic, amusing and shallow but, thankfully, fleshes out the characters for something deeper. It’s fun in a snappy way, yet hindered by a feeling of unreality in the first half, which is resolved in the second. Brown is reminiscent of Michael Caine while Shue is in her prime, although her beauty isn’t fully captured as it was in “The Karate Kid” and the later “Leaving Las Vegas” (the fools). Laurence Luckinbill shows up in the last act; he would go on to superbly play Sybok in “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” the next year. The ending is fine, but a bar is a bar, a place where people get soused. You can make a good living from it, sure, but does that benefit or deter humanity in the grand scheme of things? The film runs 1 hour, 43 minutes, and was shot in Toronto and Ocho Rios, Jamaica. GRADE: B


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