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A young, ambitious New York bartender becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and finds true love, he gains a new perspective on his life.
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Cocktail (1988)
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Critics Consensus: There are no surprises in Cocktail, a shallow, dramatically inert romance that squanders Tom Cruise's talents in what amounts to a naive barkeep's banal fantasy.
Critics Consensus: There are no surprises in Cocktail, a shallow, dramatically inert romance that squanders Tom Cruise's talents in what amounts to a naive barkeep's banal fantasy.
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Critic Consensus: There are no surprises in Cocktail, a shallow, dramatically inert romance that squanders Tom Cruise's talents in what amounts to a naive barkeep's banal fantasy.
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Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.
The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money.
It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.
Very, very stupid.
Cruise is beguiling with his smile and his swagger, but the script doesn't take us anywhere fresh when it leaves the barroom.
This vacant, misshapen film is basically an extended beer commercial that presents the world as a ludicrous place populated by sex-and-cash-and-booze-crazed zomboids. Cruise, meanwhile, comes off as a somewhat taller Spuds MacKenzie.
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.
The philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote a book about the banality of evil. After seeing Cocktail, I want to write one about the evil of banality.
If they gave you this in a bar, you'd send it back.
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.
If some other drug were treated this way in a movie, lots of outraged people -- including parents and politicians -- would be up in arms. But it's only alcohol, the reasoning seems to go, so it's all harmless fun.
Cruise 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.
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What has Mr Cruise done to blokes over the years huh. He made us all wanna join the military so we could play with fighter jets and have a cool nickname, play/hustle nine-ball for a living, be a NASCAR driver. but at one point he also made all men wanna become bartenders. The image. behind a slick neon lit bar, fast money and easy sex, who would say no?. Well the plot in this ever so 80's flick is a cocktail of drama in itself!. Kicks off as a loose dumb story about a young guy who learns to be a bartender and throws bottles around awful looking swanky yuppie/suit type bars. From there we get cheating, backstabbing and escapism to Jamaica where a soppy love story breaks out. More backstabbing follows as we proceed to more heartbreak and the involvement with older rich women, much more fun then. Yet more breakup, death of a friend and eventual makeup leading to the obvious happy ending. A veritable rollercoaster of a plot which is totally uninteresting and rather cringeworthy. Watching Cruise pose and strut around with his wide toothy grin and hair that can't decide to be straight or curly is somewhat painful at times. The bar scenes are really quite crap looking back, I remember how people thought this stuff was sooooo cool (laugh out loud!). The cast is also another odd cocktail of choice. Aussie Bryan Brown who never really made much of a splash in Hollywood is a bizarre choice. Whilst Shue was never very attractive in my book and hardly sells her character, so dreadfully vanilla and dull!! geez. Brown is just totally uncool and annoying whilst Shue is a wet fish. Add to that the constant flow of hyped over acting and mugging by Cruise. oh god it makes you wanna vomit in your Singapore Sling!. A film for the ladies I think as the only things that interested me was a few female arse shots and the thought of what life would be like as a sex toyboy for a rich middle aged business woman (I would of stuck it out). In places this film is very awkward to watch, bordering on embarrassing. So completely and utterly dated (in a bad way) and serves no purpose other than a history lesson on 80's social gatherings and what people thought was cool employment at the time. A time when Cruise's ego was sky high alongside his over acting, mind you what's new.
It's always an eye opening experience when you enjoy a film that you know you should hate. Such is the self hatred roller coaster of Cocktail, a very basic and uninspiring premise, also poorly executed, but way too much fun with its camp and cast of characters to incite the usual villagers with torches effect. Yes, the eighties were an especially grotesque time for cinema, including sex fueled debauchery, consumerism going hand in hand with Reagan economics, and some mind altering soundtracks and scores, all synth, all the time. Cocktail gravitates towards these pitfalls with great ease, but never quite makes it into awful, mostly because of the intriguing cast. The plot itself is nauseating, starting off as a great story of a bartender following his dream of wealth and power. Instead of climbing the ladder, or at least cultivating a "there's more to life than money" mentality, our protagonist becomes ever more unlikable, a lady's man so in your face it's an ugly portrayal. Somehow we bounce between New York City and Jamaica, but not in a timeline that makes any sense, including a romance with Elisabeth Shue's character. It's because Tom Cruise can pull off cocky in almost all roles, and Shue is the obliged girl next door, that this is a cult success. Even though the story, with all the rags to riches mentality, but none of the follow through, is based on Cruise's character, it just isn't juicy enough for the audience. There's so much materialistic buildup from our hero, that his subsequent behavior and that of the other characters is sickening, especially Shue's. Still, anything with Cruise in the eighties includes an eyeful of neon and that quirky grin, which is enough for any woman with an open mind.
One of the best romantic films ever made. I'm in love with this film and Tom Cruise was exceptional.
What a waste of talent, I hated it.
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Cocktail
Cocktail (1988)
- Tom Cruiseas Brian Flanagan
- Bryan Brownas Doug Coughlin
- Elisabeth Shueas Jordan Mooney
- Lisa Banesas Bonnie
- Laurence Luckinbillas Mr. Mooney
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"Cocktail" tells the story of two bartenders and their adventures in six bars and several bedrooms. What is remarkable, given the subject, is how little the movie knows about bars or drinking.
Early in the film, there's a scene where the two bartenders stage an elaborately choreographed act behind the bar. They juggle bottles in unison, one spins ice cubes into the air and the other one catches them, and then they flip bottles at each other like a couple of circus jugglers. All of this is done to rock 'n' roll music, and it takes them about four minutes to make two drinks. They get a roaring ovation from the customers in their crowded bar, which is a tip-off to the movie's glossy phoniness. This isn't bartending, it's a music video, and real drinkers wouldn't applaud, they'd shout: "Shut up and pour!" The bartenders in the film are played by Tom Cruise, as a young ex-serviceman who dreams of becoming a millionaire, and Bryan Brown, as a hard-bitten veteran who has lots of cynical advice. Brown advises Cruise to keep his eyes open for a "rich chick," because that's his ticket to someday opening his own bar. Cruise is ready for this advice.
He studies self-help books and believes that he'll be rich someday, if only he gets that big break. The movie is supposed to be about how he outgrows his materialism, although the closing scenes leave room for enormous doubts about his redemption.
The first part of the movie works the best. That's when Cruise drops out of school, becomes a full-time bartender, makes Brown his best friend and learns to juggle those bottles. In the real world, Cruise and Brown would be fired for their time-wasting grandstanding behind the bar, but in this movie they get hired to work in a fancy disco where they have a fight over a girl and Cruise heads for Jamaica.
There, as elsewhere, his twinkling eyes and friendly smile seem irresistible to the women on the other side of the bar, and he lives in a world of one-night stands. That's made possible by the fact that no one in this movie has ever heard of AIDS, not even the rich female fashion executive (Lisa Banes) who picks Cruise up and takes him back to Manhattan with her.
What do you think? Do you believe a millionaire Manhattan woman executive in her 30s would sleep with a wildly promiscuous bartender she picks up on the beach? Not unless she was seriously drunk. And that's another area this movie knows little about: the actual effects of drinking. Sure, Cruise gets tanked a couple of times and staggers around a little and throws a few punches. But given the premise that he and Brown drink all of the time, shouldn't they be drunk, or hung over, at least most of the time? Not in this fantasy world.
If the film had stuck to the relationship between Cruise and Brown, it might have had a chance. It makes a crucial error when it introduces a love story, involving Cruise and Elisabeth Shue, as a vacationing waitress from New York. They find true love, which is shattered when Shue sees Cruise with the rich Manhattan executive.
After the executive takes Cruise back to New York and tries to turn him into a pampered stud, he realizes his mistake and apologizes to Shue, only to discover, of course, that she is pregnant - and rich.
The last stages of the movie were written, directed and acted on automatic pilot, as Shue's millionaire daddy tries to throw Cruise out of the penthouse but love triumphs. There is not a moment in the movie's last half-hour that is not borrowed from other movies, and eventually even the talented and graceful Cruise can be seen laboring with the ungainly reversals in the script. Shue, who does whatever is possible with her role, is handicaped because her character is denied the freedom to make natural choices; at every moment, her actions are dictated by the artificial demands of the plot.
It's a shame the filmmakers didn't take a longer, harder look at this material. The movie's most interesting character is the older bartender, superbly played by Brown, who never has a false moment. If the film had been told from his point of view, it would have been a lot more interesting, but box-office considerations no doubt required the center of gravity to shift to Cruise and Shue.
One of the weirdest things about "Cocktail"' is the so-called message it thinks it contains. Cruise is painted throughout the film as a cynical, success-oriented 1980s materialist who wants only to meet a rich woman and own his own bar. That's why Shue doesn't tell him at first that she's rich. Toward the end of the movie, there's a scene where he allegedly chooses love over money, but then, a few months later, he is the owner and operator of his own slick Manhattan singles bar.
How did he finance it? There's a throwaway line about how he got some money from his uncle, a subsistence-level bartender who can't even afford a late-model car. Sure. It costs a fortune to open a slick singles bar in Manhattan, and so we are left with the assumption that Cruise's rich father-in-law came through with the financing. If the movie didn't want to leave that impression, it shouldn't have ended with the scene in the bar. But then this is the kind of movie that uses Cruise's materialism as a target all through the story and then rewards him for it at the end. The more you think about what really happens in "Cocktail," the more you realize how empty and fabricated it really is.
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This cocktail is more virgin than bloody Mary.
A heady blend of terse dialogue, slick cinematography, an electric soundtrack and engaging characters, Cocktail will appeal in particular to the margarita-swilling members of the audience.
Cocktail is a fun, romantic romp.
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Audience Reviews for Cocktail
A great entertainer and a certain winner among the youth. The story lacks penetration but the actors do an OUTSTANDING job of not making us know that. Deepika Padukone is fantastic as Veronica while Saif Ali Khan does very well as Gautam. Diana is great (if considering that its her first film). All in all its a great film, full laughs and love. Could have been a little shorter and certainly could have had a more dramatic ending (with the story that was being told in the 1st half) but it is still is a great entertainer and decent enough love story after long, long time (since Jab We Met).
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Film locations: New York City; Ontario; Jamaica
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Baker Street Pub , 1152 First Avenue ( tel: 212.688.9663 )
The 1963 film of Lord of the Flies and 1986 comedy Club Paradise , with Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole, also filmed in Port Antonio .
Cocktail location: TGI Friday, 1152 First Avenue, New York (before it reopened as the Baker Street Pub)
Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) learns the value of true lurve, and how to juggle bottles, in this predictable, flashy fluff, set mainly around New York.
The East Side bar where Brian and Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) practise their synchronised juggling was TGI Friday’s (it has since closed down) which stood at 1152 First Avenue at 63rd Street (though the interiors filmed at a recreation of the bar in a Canadian studio). The TGI bar is now the Sherlock Holmes-themed Baker Street Pub.
Cocktail location: Flanagan’s uncle’s bar, ‘Pat’s Place’: 50th Avenue, Queens
‘Pat’s Place’, Flanagan’s uncle’s bar,was in Queens , at the western corner of 50th Avenue and Jackson Avenue in Long Island City .
Flanagan’s success takes him to Jamaica, where the beach bar scenes were staged at Dragon Bay Beach, Port Antonio in Jamaica, where the bar is now called surprise – Cruise Bar . In 2010, Tom Cruise returned to Port Antonio for the tropical island scene in Knight And Day.
The waterfall is Reach Falls , on the Drivers River , inland from Manchioneal on the northern coast.
Like many ‘New York’-set films, much of Cocktail , though, was shot in Toronto , at Soupy’s Tavern (now Stoopy’s ), 376 Dundas East ; Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor West ; the Old Don Jail ; Knox College at the University of Toronto; Casa Loma ; Canada Life Building ; the Beardmore Building and St John’s Norway Cemetery .
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Actress Gina Gershon stated in a podcast Interview that during their bed scene, Tom Cruise, knew she was extremely ticklish, and tickled her so hard, they both fell off the bed. It was, in fact, this take that production used for the movie.
The term for the flamboyant tending of bar by Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) and Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) is "flair bartending" which is an acrobatic bar-tending skill. John Bandy, a flair bartender, trained Tom Cruise for the film.
The boxing fight match shown on television, upon which Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) has a fifty dollar bet, is a heavyweight bout between George Foreman and Ken Norton.
The correct name for the plastic bit on the end of shoelaces is an "aglet" not a "flugelbinder". The latter term was made-up for the movie.
Jennifer Grey, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Jodie Foster, Daryl Hannah, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all considered for the role of Jordan Mooney, which in the end was cast with Elisabeth Shue.
This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
Elisabeth Shue's brother Andrew Shue can be seen briefly in the background during the wedding reception scene.
Robin Williams was considered for the role of Brian Flanagan. Williams had previously starred in Club Paradise (1986). Incidentally Williams starred in director Roger Donaldson's next film Cadillac Man (1990).
Jim Carrey and Charlie Sheen were considered for the role of Brian Flanagan, which in the end was cast with Tom Cruise.
The man seen twice in Jamaica sitting at the bar while Tom Cruise is tending is James Eckhouse, who is known for playing the father of Brenda and Brandon, on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).
The film was made and released four years after its source novel of the same name by Heywood Gould. Gould also penned the screenplay for this movie.
In Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho (1991) (filmed as American Psycho (2000)), the lead central character of Patrick Bateman catches and elevator with movie star Tom Cruise, and commends him on his performance in the movie "Bartender", with Cruise correcting him by stating the picture's name is actually Cocktail (1988).
Keanu Reeves, John Travolta , Rob Lowe, Tom Hanks , Steve Guttenberg, Bill Murray, and Jeff Bridges were considered for the role of Brian Flanagan.
Heather Graham was offered the role of Jordan Mooney, but declined due to scheduling conflicts with License To Drive (1988).
Molly Ringwald turned down the role of Jordan Mooney.
The movie was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards including Tom Cruise for Worst Actor and Roger Donaldson for Worst Director. The film in the end won two Razzies, for Worst Picture and for Worst Screenplay.
Stars Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue had to endure extremely cold water conditions whilst shooting in Jamaica.
Actor and the movie's top billed star Tom Cruise at one point fell sick from swimming in the extremely cold waters in Jamaica.
The movie's popular song "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys was Golden Globe nominated in 1989 for Best Original Song - Motion Picture, but lost out to the tie between "Two Hearts" from Buster (1988) and "Let the River Run" from Working Girl (1988).
The movie's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album went to the number one spot on the Canadian Albums Chart and the Australian Albums Chart; the number two spot on the U.S. Billboard Top 200 Chart and the New Zealand Album Charts; the number three spot on the Swiss, Austrian, and Swedish Album Charts, and peaked at the number four spot on the German Albums Chart.
On the Gold Coast (a.k.a. Surfers Paradise) in Queensland, Australia, there is a real life multi-level night-club called "Cocktails and Dreams", which was named after the one in the movie. The picture's co-star, Bryan Brown, is from Australia. The later television comedy Cocktails & Dreams (2015), starred three actors from Cocktail (1988), they being Brown, Lisa Banes, and Gina Gershon, who played the characters of The Australian Guy, The Art Lady, and Girl Number One, respectively, their names all reflective in some way of their characters in Cocktail (1988). Cocktails & Dreams (2015) was made, and first broadcast twenty-seven years after Cocktail (1988).
According to the The 80s Movies Rewind website, "Tom Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers at the time, and it was rumored that they fought off-set constantly".
Heywood Gould's source novel and screenplay adaptation was "inspired by some years as a New York bartender" according to show-business trade paper 'Variety'.
Filming weeks in Jamaica shot for seven day weeks according to the 19th May 1988 edition of 'Rolling Stone' magazine.
"Originally all the bottle tossing that was done in the film, was not scripted but in fact done last minute because the actors wanted to 'feel like real bartenders'" according to the The 80s Movies Rewind website.
The place where star Tom Cruise, in preparation for his role as a cocky bartender in this film, trained and practiced in cocktails, bar-tending, and "flair bartending", according to the 21st October 1987 edition of 'The Los Angeles Herald Examiner', was at "John Clancy's Seafood Restaurant" in New York City.
Just prior to the picture's premiere theatrical release in 1989, as reported in the 29th October 2006 edition of 'West Magazine', the film's "Cocktail" title was briefly changed to "The Bartender" by Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Walt Disney Studios CEO at the time, and then changed back to "Cocktail" before it opened wide in theaters.
According to the 21st February 1992 edition of show business trade paper 'The Hollywood Reporter', the American Film Institute reports that "John Bandy, who was credited as bar advisor on the film, sued Michael Werner of Tampa, FL, alleging that Werner falsely claimed to be Tom Cruise's bartending teacher." Moreover, the 27th February 1992 edition of the 'The Wall Street Journal' "noted that Werner denied teaching Cruise but acknowledged he taught Bandy bartending techniques when they worked together ten years prior in Houston, TX."
One of two 1988 theatrical feature films starring actress Gina Gershon. The cinema movies are Cocktail (1988) and Red Heat (1988). There actually exists a "Red Heat" cocktail. The Belvedere Red Heat Cocktail comprises 45ml or 1.5 oz of Belvedere Red Vodka and 45ml or 1.5 oz of Pomegranate Juice, which are both then topped with Fever-Tree Ginger Ale. The cocktail is built in highball and garnished with a lime wedge.
Only about 24 minutes of the movie's standard 104 minute running time is actually set in the exotic Carribean vacation location of Jamaica, for which the picture is famous, particularly from the film's popular "Kokomo" song track music-video tie-in by The Beach Boys. Approximately eighty minutes of the movie is set in New York City's Upper East Side of Manhattan.
When they are playing basketball, Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) asks Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) about his girlfriend, and Brian tells him that her name is Coral (Gina Gershon), among other things. In a scene before this one, the three (Doug, Brian, and Coral) are sitting in the kitchen of the apartment where Brian lives.
The names of various night-spots, cocktail bars, and hospitality venues featured in the movie included "Jerry's", "Cell Block", "Hysteria", "Kats Place", and "Flanagan's" and/or "Cocktails and Dreams" a.k.a. "Flanagan's Cocktails & Dreams".
Elisabeth Shue would go on to feature in another alcohol related movie seven years later, when she would be co-starred alongside Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), for which Shue would be both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
In the "Excellence in Broadcasting" episode of Family Guy (1998) (See: Family Guy: Excellence in Broadcasting (2010)), Brian said this movie is pretty good. Lois said then 'he's making her sick'.
Ted McGinley was considered for the role of Brian Flanagan which in the end was cast with Tom Cruise.
Various life experience rules stated by Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) were each named by him as a "Coughlin's Law".
J. Peter Robinson replaced Maurice Jarre as the movie's music composer. Producers Ted Field and Robert W. Cort, according to the 20th July 1988 edition of show-business trade paper 'Daily Variety', felt Jarre's score did not fit in with the movie's story. Jarre still received his fee and Robinson was contracted to compose a score in three days. The Buena Vista Pictures film company made a loss at having to re-print one-sheet movie posters and preview screening tickets which had Jarre's name on them. The 28th July 1988 edition of 'The Los Angeles Herald Examiner' reported that Jarre had already been billed on the sleeve jacket of the movie's soundtrack.
The film's closing credits give special thanks to: Cartier, Air Jamaica, the Ontario Film Development Corporation, the Jamaica Film Office, Monet Jewelry, Panetta Jewelry, and Furs by Alixandre.
Gerry Bamman, who plays a tourist who asks about a "free drink" in this film, is similar to the character Uncle Frank in Home Alone (1990), asking if the champagne on the plane is free.
Tom Cruise's Brian Flanagan character, has the same first name phonetically as co-star Bryan Brown, who played Doug Coughlin, the pair of actors portraying best friends in the picture.
The nickname of Douglas Coughlin (Bryan Brown) was Doug.
The name of the Coughlin's luxury yacht sea vessel was "Kerry's Dream" named after Doug Coughlin's (Bryan Brown)'s wife Kerry Coughlin (Kelly Lynch).
Screenwriter Heywood Gould wrote the book and the film based on his experiences as a bartender in the late 1970's and early 1980's, a position he took as a struggling writer.
Chantilly Lace by The Big Bopper is on the Cocktail (1988) soundtrack. Tom Cruise starred in this film. Chantilly Lace by The Big Bopper is also on the True Romance (1993) soundtrack. Christian Slater starred in this film. Cruise and Slater would go on to co-star in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994).
Riffed by Michael J Nelson from MST3K, under the Rifftrax name.
The number of sexual conquests and/or romantic liaisons that cocky bartender Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) has in the movie totaled to four. These were: Coral (Gina Gershon), Bonnie (Lisa Banes), Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), and Kerry Coughlin (Kelly Lynch) (they share at least a passionate kiss).
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