Cocktail

1988

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

64
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 45 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 97420 97.4K

new york city jamaica night life bartender ambition rags to riches

Plot summary

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.

Director

Roger Donaldson Photo
Roger Donaldson

Top cast

Tom Cruise Photo
Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan
Bryan Brown Photo
Bryan Brown as Doug Coughlin
Ron Dean Photo
Ron Dean as Uncle Pat
Gerry Bamman Photo
Gerry Bamman as Tourist
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868.36 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 0 min
Seeds 13
1.64 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 0 min
Seeds 46

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MFC9 7 / 10

Superior Bad Movie

The ultimate bad movie, Cocktail stars Tom Cruise as the money obsessed Brian Flanagan, a flair bartender trying to get rich quick. Cruise ups the charisma to unbearable levels in yet another Colour of Money template, this time with Bryan Brown as the older mentor figure who both guides, challenges and redeems cocky young Cruise. The final act is rushed as an afterthought, but it doesn't matter. There is more than enough Tom love to go around. 7/10.
Reviewed by richardchatten 7 / 10

"Drinks are on the house!"

If only real life was like this surprise success with Tom Cruise flashing his teeth in what was to become his standard role as a young whippersnapper on the make while scoring with rich chicks.The busy story (adapted by Heywood Gould from his original novel) is energetically directed by Australian newcomer Roger Donaldson, and although Cruise is officially the star, the best performance is inevitably that of Donaldson's fellow antipodean Bryan Brown (described by Cruise as looking like a guy "who dyes his hair and shaves with a Brillo").It's all very eighties, lines like "The Donald Trump of the Cookie Business" having since acquired an unforeseen resonance.
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