
Intent on becoming a successful businessman, and even a millionaire, the ex-military man, Brian Flanagan, waits for his big break while serving drinks at a New York City tavern, and studying for his degree. However, when the charismatic cynic and veteran bartender, Doug Coughlin, becomes the ambitious Brian's sage mentor, their chemistry, combined with the flamboyant tricks behind the bar, will soon yield fame and money until they decide to split ways. Now, as Flanagan strugg... (Full plot summary below)
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Intent on becoming a successful businessman, and even a millionaire, the ex-military man, Brian Flanagan, waits for his big break while serving drinks at a New York City tavern, and studying for his degree. However, when the charismatic cynic and veteran bartender, Doug Coughlin, becomes the ambitious Brian's sage mentor, their chemistry, combined with the flamboyant tricks behind the bar, will soon yield fame and money until they decide to split ways. Now, as Flanagan struggles to raise money in Jamaica to open his dream bar someday, he falls hard for the striving waitress, Jordan Mooney, while a wealthy fashion executive wants to take him back to Manhattan to live with her. Is there a future between Brian and Jordan?
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| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelThe more you think about what really happens in Cocktail, the more you realize how empty and fabricated it really is. |
| EmpireLola BorgCruise oozes as much charm as in Top Gun and The Colour of Money, but the mix of bar-acrobatics and Caribbean love isn't anywhere near strong enough to get you drunk. |
| USA TodayDonna BrittIn fact, with no fewer than 17 of Donaldson's favorite rock songs and a complete lack of dramatic impetus, Cocktail would fare better as an extended-play music video. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyCruise is walking in the footsteps of Troy Donahue and John Travolta here. He does what comes easy. He bumps and grinds and grins till his lips ache. It's a performance with all the integrity of wax fruit. And Cocktail is mud in your eye. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyCocktail, which opens today at the Cinema 2 and other theaters, is ''Saturday Night Fever'' without John Travolta, the Bee-Gees and dancing. It is an inane romantic drama that only a very young, very naive bartender could love. How it got that way is difficult to understand. |
| User Reviewgenealogypro11This movie is better than how they rated it in general...This movie is better than how they rated it in general... ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ |
| User ReviewTommyThis is one of the most iconic films of the 80's. It literally oozes cool. This is not one of the 29 worst films of all time... |
| User ReviewSuperfreakSeen this movie so many times, and always brings a tear to my eye. |
| User Reviewrosenbaum51Totally corny script with a lot of funny and weird moments. The writers of this movies took a lot of time to make this movie funny. |
| User ReviewSteven1981Cocktail is a romance drama film directed in 1988 by Roger Donaldson and stars Tom Cruise, Kelly Lynch, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue.... Cocktail is an old film that I remember growing up and I can certainly say it's not the best film I'll be honest but it's fun and there are much worser movies. The short fight scenes involving Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown are great and a few others later. I like how Tom Cruise jumps from one woman to another and is the desire of every woman which is totally unrealistic and unbelievable. The acting isn't great but Tom Cruise carries the film in my opinion with help from Bryan Brown and I didn't find any of the characters annoying except the odd one or two. The bar scenes with Tom Cruise are great and learning how to flip bottles and the soundtrack is good except from a Jamaican song or something in the film. The romance aspects are good even if some bits cheesy and there's obviously sex scenes even if you don't see much nudity. Tom Cruise basically plays a bartender and gets taught by Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) how to be a bartender. Later on Tom Cruise starts a bartender business in Jamaica and gets a girl pregnant then cheats on her and gets back with her and then becomes a father at the end. Good enough film in my opinion and Kelly Lynch looked hot. |