Cocktail
1988
Two bartenders (Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown) at a busy Manhattan watering hole dream of someday owning their own bars. Their lives consist of elaborate drink-mixing performances and sleeping with many of the female customers, until a fight over a woman causes the younger bartender, Brian (Cruise), to flee to Jamaica. There Brian .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Lynch |
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| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| Genres | Drama |
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Cocktail
Two bartenders (Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown) at a busy Manhattan watering hole dream of someday owning their own bars. Their lives consist of elaborate drink-mixing performances and sleeping with many of the female customers, until a fight over a woman causes the younger bartender, Brian (Cruise), to flee to Jamaica. There Brian finds true love with Jordan (Elizabeth Shue), a vacationing waitress/artist, but blows it when his materialist instincts get the better of him, and he takes up with a wealthy, older New York fashion designer (Lisa Banes). She brings him back to the city, where he lives as a kept man for a time. But realizing that love will make him happier than money, Brian seeks out Jordan and tries to win her back.
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Lisa Banes |
|---|---|
| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| Studio | WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Mar 2002 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Having turned fighter pilots and pool players into sex objects in Top Gun and The Color of Money, Tom Cruise attempted to do the same service for, er, bartenders in this romantic comedy. You'd better believe it. Cruise learns all about the meaning of life by mixing drinks, under the tutelage of Martini-mentor Bryan Brown. Admittedly, Cruise's technique is pretty impressive; he juggles with bottles, jiggles his behind and makes his female customers drunk with desire. But then along comes Elisabeth Shue, who makes him re-assess his lifestyle. Cue lots of serious dialogue. Perhaps the best one can say for this bland concoction mixed by agents and the studio executives is that every bartender in Hollywood wants to be Tom Cruise and that suffices as an ironic subtext. Fans of Paul Verhoeven's pitiful Showgirls might like to check out Gina Gershon with her clothes on.
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If a visitor from Mars needed a crash course in sexism, this would serve. Freshly demobbed, Brian Flanagan (Cruise)... read more on Time Out
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Most helpful member's review
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Not too bad
My wife forced me to watch this film and I must admit it was a better than your average film. Storyline was not a new concept but it was acted well by Cruise and Bryan Brown. All in all a decent movie!
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Most recent members' review
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Cheesey, 80's heaven!!!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Have seen this film at least 50 times and it takes me way back.
Unrealistic, sexy and camp it was every young girl who grew up in the 80's teenage dream! We alll want him, we all want to be her and we all danced to the soundtrack.
If you are looking for a perfect film for a girls night in and a giggle this is it. -
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Cocktail the musical
- 27 Oct 2009
Tom Cruise's movie hit Cocktail is set to be turned into a Broadway musical. Creator Heywood Gould is marking the 20th anniversary of the film's release by turning his script into a New York stage show. He has recruited Chicago producer Martin Richards to help write the music, and he has hinted he wants Cruise's wife Katie Holmes to reprise Elizabeth Shue's big screen role onstage. Gould tells the New York Post, "I am writing it as we speak. Marty Richards is on board and he's working on the... Read more
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