Cocktail (1988)

Directed by

Roger Donaldson

Genre

drama film, buddy film, romance film, romantic comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 1,637 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A business student becomes a bartender to support himself. He learns the tricks of the trade from a charismatic mentor and eventually opens his own bar.

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What happens

Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Roger Donaldson from a screenplay by Heywood Gould, and based on Gould's book of the same name. It stars Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue. It tells the story of business student Brian Flanagan, who takes up bartending in order to make ends meet. Released on July 29, 1988, by Buena Vista Pictures (under its adult film label Touchstone Pictures), Cocktail features an original music score composed by J. Peter Robinson. Despite being overwhelmingly panned by critics, and winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the film was a huge box office success, grossing $171.5 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 1988. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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