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Cocktail (1988)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:3

Rotten:18

Average Rating:3.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Two bartenders at a busy Manhattan watering hole dream of someday owning their own bars. Their present lives consist of elaborate drink-mixing performances and sleeping with many of the female... Two bartenders at a busy Manhattan watering hole dream of someday owning their own bars. Their present lives consist of elaborate drink-mixing performances and sleeping with many of the female customers, until a fight over a woman causes the younger bartender to flee to Jamaica. In Jamaica he finds true love with a vacationing waitress, but blows it when his materialist instincts get the better of him and he takes up with a wealthy, older, New York fashion designer. She brings him back to the city, where he lives as a kept man for a time, but realizing that love will make him happier than money, he seeks out the waitress, and tries to win her back. [More]

Starring: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes

Starring: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Gina Gershon

Director: Roger Donaldson

Director: Roger Donaldson

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Aug 13, 2002

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  • Cocktail
  • Tom Cruise is electrifying as Brian Flanagan, a young, confident, and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro (Bryan Brown -- GORILLAS IN THE MIST, F/X 2), becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist (Elisabeth Shue -- ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, HOLLOW MAN), their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life. Sizzling with high-powered performances and a #1 hit soundtrack, the box office blockbuster COCKTAIL has it all!
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    Spence D.
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    Overall, it's ridiculous, but Cocktail is a real classic of the late-80s self-help moviemaking genre.

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    Jake Euker
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    Stupid vanity film for Cruise at his worst.

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    09/11/03
    Ken Hanke
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    Shaky, not stirring.

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    08/11/02
    Laura Clifford
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    At least Cocktail isn't offensive... unless you are insulted by losing two hours of your life -- two hours you'll never get back -- to a boring movie with the emotional depth of a Harold Robbins novel.

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    Philip Martin
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    Cocktail is mud in your eye.

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    Rita Kempley
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    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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    Sarah Chauncey
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    Puddle-deep and coated in neon.

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