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Cocktail
1988
Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect rich chick who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending act, taking five minutes to a .. 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
Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect rich chick who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending act, taking five minutes to a mix a drink as they dance and toss gin bottles behind the bar to cutting-edge rock music circa 1988. The patrons, instead of demanding the booze, are dazzled by their antics and cheer them on. As a result, the bartenders become wildly popular -- in particular, Brian, who finds the bar babes falling all over each other to hop into the sack with him. As a result of their bar-tending success, they get hired to tend bar at a swanky disco, but there Brian and Doug have a falling out, and Brian takes off for Jamaica. There he meets vacationing New York City waitress Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue) and the two fall in love. But then Brian meets rich New York fashion executive Bonnie (Lisa Banes) who wants to take Brian back to Manhattan with her to become her drink-mixing stud. When Jordan sees this, the love affair is put on hold. But not for long, as pangs of consciousness begin to filter through Brian's drunken haze.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Lisa Banes |
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| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| Studio | WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1988 To Rent: DVD: 11 Mar 2002 |
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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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- Time Out
- 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
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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 ... read more »
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- stanhutchings1
- Merseyside
- 15 Nov 2005 at 09:42
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80s film at its best
classic brilliance from the 80s.
great storyline, great music, brilliant all the way through, has you laughing and crying in various parts.read more » - 1106071
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- cheesekake
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Above average - has its moments.
Yeah above average 80s film and just a vehicle for Tom Cruise. I personally watched it for Elizabeth Shue:O). Why oh why couldn't they have shown a frontal ... read more »
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Little Tom Cruise at his 80s best!
All time classic, with Elizabeth Shue cast as the perfect girl-next-door rich chick, who you can like without feeling jealous of. Tom Cruise has just enough ... read more »
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- HanaBomBana
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News and features
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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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Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect rich chick who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending ...
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