Cocktail

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Tom Cruise
Brian Flanagan

Bryan Brown
Douglas 'Doug' Coughlin

Elisabeth Shue
Jordan Mooney

Lisa Banes
Bonnie

Laurence Luckinbill
Mr. Mooney

Kelly Lynch
Kerry Coughlin

Gina Gershon
Coral

Ron Dean
Uncle Pat

Roger Donaldson
Director

Robert W. Cort
Producer

Ted Field
Producer

John Mellencamp
Original Music

J. Peter Robinson
Original Music

Dean Semler
Cinematographer

Neil Travis
Film Editor

Donna Isaacson
Casting

John S. Lyons
Casting

Mel Bourne
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• Sep 25, 2016

  A classic that helped launch Tom Cruise's career. I have never seen this before but I really enjoyed it and I can see why many others also enjoyed it.
  

  Ian W Super Reviewer
• Dec 20, 2015

  So hilariously bad I can't even explain it. There aren't words to describe how awful this is, but I think it's at least deliberately awful...there's no way anyone could've thought this wasn't going to be terrible while they were making it.
  Stephen S Super Reviewer
• Oct 12, 2013

  This is actually one of my favourite Tom Cruise films.
  

  Beth M Super Reviewer
• Sep 21, 2012

  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.
  Phil H Super Reviewer

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