Overall, it's ridiculous, but Cocktail is a real classic of the late-80s self-help moviemaking genre.
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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Release:
Aug 13, 2002
Reviews for Cocktail
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.
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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