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| Year: 1988 |
| Director: Roger Donaldson |
| Cast: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Chris Owens, Justin Louis |
| Genres: Romance, Drama, Comedy |
| Runtime: 104 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Subtitles: OpenSubtitles.org |
After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin (Brian Brown) teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian & Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort. Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together after closing... Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together? |
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| Date: 2007-10-04 13:44:34 |
User: (Hidden Name) |
| This is a pretty decent flick, if you don't go into it expecting it to be something it's not. This is not high art. But it doesn't pretend to be. It's like a lot of films, where the premise is better than the story. A film about showoff bartenders in Manhattan. OK, but then you've got to build a movie around that. Their antics are photogenic, but it takes them about four minutes to make two drinks. What Midtown alcoholics are going to put up with that? Anyway, hey, a film with both Elizabeth Shue AND Kelly Lynch, two of the cutest actresses of the late '80's. AND, Gina Gershon. What's not to like? This was an obvious star vehicle for Tom Cruise, and he did OK here, but Bryan Brown stole the show. |
| Date: 2007-10-04 13:44:40 |
User: (Hidden Name) |
This is exactly why the general masses watch travel shows - or movies, for that matter. Escapism. They want to be taken vicariously to places they haven't the resources to go to, themselves. We shouldn't criticise if all they want to do is look at the pretty pictures, not everybody has to be an active participant in life. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a more rigorous mental workout, but if all I want to do is let shallowness wash over me like a wave, then I just switch on "Cocktail" for a pleasant and undemanding bit of fun. Works every time and almost makes me forget that I'm in a gloomy country where everything is usually grey.
The daily itinerary of a jet-setting bartender is packed full of glamour, glitz, but precious little substance - and sometimes that's exactly what I'm looking for! For a good while it even makes alcoholism into an attractive and sexy prospect, thanks to the laconic wit of one Mr. Bryan Brown (Take a bow!) I know this is irresponsible in reality, but at least it will teach you not to believe everything you see on a screen... Even death and childbirth can only momentarily intrude on the whole relentlessly sunny atmosphere, and the soundtrack contains lots of feel-good tunes to complement the action nicely. All of this makes you believe that if you only looked like Tom Cruise or Elizabeth Shue, then you'd have the rest of your life sorted.
So grab a glass of whatever takes your fancy, add the obligatory umbrella on a stick, plop down on the couch and let yourself be whisked away. For one or two hours you can fantasise and pretend that you really are living the good life... |
| Date: 2007-10-04 13:44:45 |
User: (Hidden Name) |
| Brian (Tom Cruise) is not a college graduate but heads to New York City to try and make his fortune. Although he is an aspiring business man, no firm will hire him without that big piece of paper. As he enrolls in night school, he takes a job as a bar tender. In a short while, he is one of the best bartenders in town. His girlfriend lets him down, however, and he takes a job in Jamaica. Once there, his reputation grows, as a great bartender and a supreme carouser. His world is shaken when he meets Jordan (Elizabeth Shue)....he just doesn't know it. When she goes back to New York City, he follows. Will happiness ensue? This film succeeds because of the attractions of Cruise and Shue, the lovely Jamaican scenery, and the romantic plot. Bryan Brown gives a very nice performance as the unlikeable bartender who trains Cruise. The costumes are nice, too, and the inside of Shue's New York apartment is quite intriguing as an artist's digs. If you love stories of unlikely romance and realized aspirations, this one you will like. All fans of Cruise and/or Shue, must take time to watch this film as well. |
| Date: 2007-10-04 13:44:52 |
User: (Hidden Name) |
| It just don't get better than that. This is a great movie, and while it is true that the acting wasn't exactly stellar, well, you definitely shouldn't be watching this movie for the acting in the first place. A classic 80s flick in my estimation, Cocktail tells the story of a bartender trying to make it big. A great movie, featuring some big movie stars before they were big movie stars. After I watched it, I wanted to go downstairs to my wetbar and try spinning some bottles around like Tom Cruise. Grade A. |
| Date: 2007-10-04 13:45:00 |
User: (Hidden Name) |
Tom Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a modest income tough guy who lived in an old Irish section of New York City. This neighborhood has a cannon of ethics which prevailed two generations ago!! Brian Flanagan eventually realizes that he was raised under one set of values, but now, he must live by quite another!! He views bar tending as a lowly middle class, and totally go nowhere occupation, until, Doug (his friend) points out to him that being a bartender is a wealth of opportunity if you know how to play people!! He meets up with a girl, Jordan, a bored product of Park Avenue, who needs some kind of direction in her life!! It takes an onslaught of adversities for Brian to realize just how much he is in love with her! He is vilified by some sanctimonious spawn of academia (a professor) for his idea on an Irish pub in every suburban shopping mall... The focusing theme to this movie is to reiterate the importance of following your dreams.. Brian Flanagan does just that!!
The movie "Cocktail" reflects the cultural conservatism of the 1980's as an influence to be reckoned with for purposes of perseverance and psychological understanding of Brian Flanagan's life situations!! This film emanates a number of distasteful alternatives about how people feel about money as opposed to how they feel about other people!! For Brian Flanagan, when life capriciously beats him up, his only recourse is to fight back, to him, money is a form of acknowledgment!! Brian's friend Doug, puts a whole new philosophy on the way Brian thinks about what is important!! I found this movie to be a purveyor of a worthwhile life lesson message!! A happy ending in this film was predicated on the fact that the movie audience must swallow a lot of bitter medicine!! This movie evokes a unique perspective of how moral values, success, and money, have many different disconcerting interpretations to them!! I feel this film was underrated, and, I give "Cocktail" a thumbs up!! |
| Date: 2007-10-04 13:45:05 |
User: (Hidden Name) |
| Cocktail is a lot of things. It's a classic love story about finding the right "rich chick". It's a sorted tale about an aging down on his luck bartender who finds a reason to live. And it's also a feel good film. It teaches you how to respect the desire. Be careful around Elisabeth Shue. "And pretty soon, days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer, before you know it, life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours." And in the end, no matter how shitty you are to people, they will always forgive you. Bryan Browns masterpiece and Cruise is electric. It's another one of those movies you could watch over and over. And in a little while, your want to watch it again. If anyone hasn't seen this movie and doesn't plan on it, than they are just retarded. Do yourself a favor, run down to the store and buy it. You'll thank me. |
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