The Coca-Cola Kid

1985

Comedy / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 47% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 3733 3.7K

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Director

Dusan Makavejev Photo
Dusan Makavejev

Top cast

Eric Roberts Photo
Eric Roberts as Becker
Steve Dodd Photo
Steve Dodd as Mr. Joe
Tim Finn Photo
Tim Finn as Phillip
Gia Carides Photo
Gia Carides as Chambermaid
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900.73 MB
1280*692
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2
1.81 GB
1920*1038
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TrTm316 6 / 10

Nasty Little Fact Ruins My Perfectly Good Theory

This tale of an American marketing guru sent to improve Coke's sales in Australia was mildly enjoyable. It's certainly not the worst film ever made, but the main character, played by Eric Roberts, is more than slightly over the top, to the point of being obnoxious, in fact, pretty unlikeable. Still, with some mild intrigue and a blooming romance, the movie will hold your attention just to find out what happens.As to the nasty little fact ruining a good theory: I'd previously held that directors, especially Europeans, invariable fail when they attempt to address economic and social concepts via sex and violence. It's a theory supported by several of Jodorowsky's films, and by this director, Dusan Makavajev's, epic failures "W.R. Mysteries of the Organism" and "Sweet Movie." These films support their moderately valid theses in ways as insubstantial and juvenile as the old Chi-com propaganda comic books that attempted to rationalize the downfall of the Gang of Four.But with "The Coca Cola Kid", Makavajev succeeds -- with less violence, and a lot less sex -- most likely because he addresses only one slice of the theoretical pie, and because he delivers a more coherent, standard narrative flow. He directed but didn't write it, of course. This dramatization of global corporate dominance was filmed while WalMart was only in the early stages of eradicating mom and pop, and while Google, Amazon, and Facebook were just leftists' vague nightmares. Any system, economic or otherwise, that lacks negative feedback will veer out of control, and the Kid personifies the attitude that lets it happen.As often happens on Amazon Video, this R-rated film is censored; most of the shower scene with Terri and her daughter -- and the accompanying dialog -- has been deleted.It's a film worth seeing once.
Reviewed by BobbySandhu-01 5 / 10

That Aussie Cola song...

It's... strange. Gets almost surreal in the end. But I tell you what, that aussie Coca- Cola song is catchy as hell.Moments for me in the film - Mother and daughter showering together - I don't think I have seen anything like that anywhere. I don't think you can even shoot something like that nowadays.McDowel shooting the American kid while the jungle noises intensify.The weird train-trucks at McDowel factory.Landing of the crop duster on an outback road.And of course the Aussie Coca-Cola song.I must mention that I have not had a soft drink in the last 10 years or so and no one in family does either.
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