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1988, Romance/Comedy, 1h 44m

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There are no surprises in Cocktail , a shallow, dramatically inert romance that squanders Tom Cruise's talents in what amounts to a naive barkeep's banal fantasy. Read critic reviews

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Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) wants a high-paying marketing job, but needs a business degree first. Working as a bartender to pay for college, Flanagan is mentored by his veteran boss, Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown). Together, their showy tricks and charisma command large crowds and tip payments -- until Flanagan and the cynical Coughlin have a falling out. Flanagan moves to Jamaica to raise enough money to open his own bar, where he falls in love with artist Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue).

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama

Original Language: English

Director: Roger Donaldson

Producer: Robert W. Cort , Ted Field

Writer: Heywood Gould

Release Date (Theaters): Jul 29, 1988  original

Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $77.3M

Runtime: 1h 44m

Distributor: Touchstone Pictures

Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications

Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

Cast & Crew

Brian Flanagan

Bryan Brown

Douglas 'Doug' Coughlin

Elisabeth Shue

Jordan Mooney

Laurence Luckinbill

Kelly Lynch

Kerry Coughlin

Gina Gershon

Roger Donaldson

Robert W. Cort

John Mellencamp

Original Music

J. Peter Robinson

Dean Semler

Cinematographer

Neil Travis

Film Editing

Donna Isaacson

John S. Lyons

Production Design

Art Director

Hilton Rosemarin

Set Decoration

Ellen Mirojnick

Costume Design

Heywood Gould

Screenwriter

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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.

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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.

This is actually one of my favourite Tom Cruise films.

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.

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"Cocktail" tells the story of two bartenders and their adventures in six bars and several bedrooms. What is remarkable, given the subject, is how little the movie knows about bars or drinking.

Early in the film, there's a scene where the two bartenders stage an elaborately choreographed act behind the bar. They juggle bottles in unison, one spins ice cubes into the air and the other one catches them, and then they flip bottles at each other like a couple of circus jugglers. All of this is done to rock 'n' roll music, and it takes them about four minutes to make two drinks. They get a roaring ovation from the customers in their crowded bar, which is a tip-off to the movie's glossy phoniness. This isn't bartending, it's a music video, and real drinkers wouldn't applaud, they'd shout: "Shut up and pour!" The bartenders in the film are played by Tom Cruise , as a young ex-serviceman who dreams of becoming a millionaire, and Bryan Brown , as a hard-bitten veteran who has lots of cynical advice. Brown advises Cruise to keep his eyes open for a "rich chick," because that's his ticket to someday opening his own bar. Cruise is ready for this advice.

He studies self-help books and believes that he'll be rich someday, if only he gets that big break. The movie is supposed to be about how he outgrows his materialism, although the closing scenes leave room for enormous doubts about his redemption.

The first part of the movie works the best. That's when Cruise drops out of school, becomes a full-time bartender, makes Brown his best friend and learns to juggle those bottles. In the real world, Cruise and Brown would be fired for their time-wasting grandstanding behind the bar, but in this movie they get hired to work in a fancy disco where they have a fight over a girl and Cruise heads for Jamaica.

There, as elsewhere, his twinkling eyes and friendly smile seem irresistible to the women on the other side of the bar, and he lives in a world of one-night stands. That's made possible by the fact that no one in this movie has ever heard of AIDS, not even the rich female fashion executive ( Lisa Banes ) who picks Cruise up and takes him back to Manhattan with her.

What do you think? Do you believe a millionaire Manhattan woman executive in her 30s would sleep with a wildly promiscuous bartender she picks up on the beach? Not unless she was seriously drunk. And that's another area this movie knows little about: the actual effects of drinking. Sure, Cruise gets tanked a couple of times and staggers around a little and throws a few punches. But given the premise that he and Brown drink all of the time, shouldn't they be drunk, or hung over, at least most of the time? Not in this fantasy world.

If the film had stuck to the relationship between Cruise and Brown, it might have had a chance. It makes a crucial error when it introduces a love story, involving Cruise and Elisabeth Shue , as a vacationing waitress from New York. They find true love, which is shattered when Shue sees Cruise with the rich Manhattan executive.

After the executive takes Cruise back to New York and tries to turn him into a pampered stud, he realizes his mistake and apologizes to Shue, only to discover, of course, that she is pregnant - and rich.

The last stages of the movie were written, directed and acted on automatic pilot, as Shue's millionaire daddy tries to throw Cruise out of the penthouse but love triumphs. There is not a moment in the movie's last half-hour that is not borrowed from other movies, and eventually even the talented and graceful Cruise can be seen laboring with the ungainly reversals in the script. Shue, who does whatever is possible with her role, is handicaped because her character is denied the freedom to make natural choices; at every moment, her actions are dictated by the artificial demands of the plot.

It's a shame the filmmakers didn't take a longer, harder look at this material. The movie's most interesting character is the older bartender, superbly played by Brown, who never has a false moment. If the film had been told from his point of view, it would have been a lot more interesting, but box-office considerations no doubt required the center of gravity to shift to Cruise and Shue.

One of the weirdest things about "Cocktail"' is the so-called message it thinks it contains. Cruise is painted throughout the film as a cynical, success-oriented 1980s materialist who wants only to meet a rich woman and own his own bar. That's why Shue doesn't tell him at first that she's rich. Toward the end of the movie, there's a scene where he allegedly chooses love over money, but then, a few months later, he is the owner and operator of his own slick Manhattan singles bar.

How did he finance it? There's a throwaway line about how he got some money from his uncle, a subsistence-level bartender who can't even afford a late-model car. Sure. It costs a fortune to open a slick singles bar in Manhattan, and so we are left with the assumption that Cruise's rich father-in-law came through with the financing. If the movie didn't want to leave that impression, it shouldn't have ended with the scene in the bar. But then this is the kind of movie that uses Cruise's materialism as a target all through the story and then rewards him for it at the end. 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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Cocktail (1988)

100 minutes

Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan

Lisa Banes as Bonnie

Laurence Luckinbill as Mr. Mooney

Elisabeth Shue as Jordan Mooney

Bryan Brown as Doug Coughlin

Produced by

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  • Neil Travis
  • J. Peter Robinson

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Cocktail

A young, ambitious New York bartender becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and finds true love, he gains a new perspective on his life.

Tom Cruise is electrifying as Brian Flanagan, a young, confident, and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro (Bryan Brown), becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist (Elisabeth Shue), their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life.

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Cruise was never been a bad actor, but this film about a flaming sex symbol has elevated him to definitive stardom. [Full review in Spanish]

Cocktail kicks off with an entertainingly lighthearted opening stretch revolving around Brian's initial entry into the world of bartending...

Cocktail is a vacuous throwback to Saturday Night Fever -- without the cultural novelty. The script is spiked with some comic lines, but overproof doses of inadvertent humor kill the effect.

As if realizing that his star hasn't smiled for 15 minutes, Donaldson tacks on a goody-goody ending that would shame the Care Bears. How to sum up what went wrong? Cruise has a line in the movie: "Flat beer from rusty pipes."

Ultimately, the ideas in this film fall as flat as stale beer and honest emotions are as watered down as cheap whiskey. This Cocktail is definitely on the rocks.

Cocktail is so steeped in corn, the drama seems comedic and the comedy is about as funny as a hangover.

Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.

The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money.

Perhaps the best one can say for this bland concoction mixed by agents and the studio executives is that every bartender in Hollywood wants to be Tom Cruise and that suffices as an ironic subtext.

It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.

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  • Genre : Drama, Comedy
  • Release Date : July 29, 1988
  • Languages : English, Spanish
  • Captions : English, Spanish
  • Audio Format : 5.1

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From 1988: How Tom Cruise learned to be a flashy bartender

Actor interviewed dozens of pros to learn the craft of tending bar for cocktail.

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Thirty years ago, Tom Cruise was already a bona fide movie star.

He'd already been seen on the big screen in The Outsiders , Risky Busines s, Top Gun and The Color of Money .

Broken bottles, fearful onlookers

"When I started out, I interviewed about 35 bartenders," said Cruise, explaining that he needed to be able to convincingly play a flashy, high-end bartender (which might be called a mixologist today).

Cruise said Cocktail  needed to be able to convince the audience that his co-star Bryan Brown was "the best bartender they've ever seen" and that Cruise's own character could then develop into a "star bartender" in his own right.

The mega-star admitted to breaking five bottles when filming and to losing a bet in the process. Brown broke only four, which left Cruise a bottle short of victory.

"Well, that's not bad because that's hard to do," Midday co-host Valerie Pringle told him.

"I was surprised. I thought I was going to break many more than that," Cruise said. "The people that were in front of me, though, were a little nervous when we were flipping the bottles."

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Tom Cruise’s Worst Movie That Has 9% Rating Bloomed His Hollywood Career More Than Any Mission Impossible Movie Has Done So Far

Tom Cruise's 'Cocktail' (1988) is the worst-rated movie of his career, and yet it solidified the branding the actor enjoys today.

Tom Cruise’s Worst Movie That Has 9% Rating Bloomed His Hollywood Career More Than Any Mission Impossible Movie Has Done So Far

  • Even before his 'Mission: Impossible' stint, Tom Cruise's worst-rated film proved his authentic stature in Hollywood.
  • 'Cocktail' (1988) may hold a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it demonstrated Cruise's work rate and immense box-office draw.
  • In dedicating himself to the role wholeheartedly, the rising star offered a glimpse into the legacy he upholds today.

Controversial while he may be, Tom Cruise is  the  quintessential movie star. You can love him or hate him, but his on-screen charisma and willingness to go all in for all his roles is what makes him, even now, a considerable box-office draw.

He embodies cinema, and his dedication to pulling out all the stops in whatever he does—whether riding off a cliff on a bike or carrying out an impossible fight sequence on the top of a moving practically-constructed train—evidences his legacy and brand in Hollywood. 

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But this trait of his isn’t one he cultivated recently. Even before the plethora of Mission: Impossible films showed us Cruise’s knack for committing to the unimaginable, there was one movie, right after Top Gun and The Color of Money , called Cocktail (1988), where the actor’s diligence and tenacity spoke volumes of his character.

While the endeavor was critically panned and even earned itself the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the now-61-year-old Hollywood icon’s image within the industry solidified further—and when word-of-mouth failed to back the film’s box office success, it was Cruise’s star-power that proved revolutionary.

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How the critically panned cocktail (1988) cemented tom cruise’s hollywood stature.

Cocktail (1988)

Seven years into his Hollywood career, after hits like Risky Business and Top Gun , audiences saw Tom Cruise —a rising star, then—embody the role of an ambitious bartender Brian Flanagan in Cocktail . The film takes from Heywood Gould’s book of the same name. Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III, and Interscope Communications backed the endeavor. While the effort didn’t lack either talent or commercial support, it failed to resonate with reviewers.

And though some movies of the past, mistakenly judged in their nascence, get reappraisal, Cocktail  never quite did. It holds a 9% rating on  Rotten Tomatoes ‘ Tomatometer. The audience score, however, stands at a slightly favorable verdict of 58%. Later, even Cruise admitted that the Roger Donaldson-helmed initiative wasn’t his career’s crowning jewel (via Rolling Stone ). 

If that wasn’t enough, the film even snagged Cruise a Worst Actor nomination at the Golden Raspberry Awards.

But get this: with all that critics had to say about the film, it still mounted to a commercial triumph. Against a budget of $20 million, the film amassed $78 million at the domestic box office (via The Numbers ). Its total worldwide gross was estimated to be a whopping $171.5 million. If that isn’t impressive, what is?

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Cocktail  did not have positive word-of-mouth to fall back on, but it had Tom Cruise, whose sheer magnetic draw attracted flocks to the theatres. Whether the film would’ve achieved so without the Rain Man alum is hard to determine.  

However, this isn’t all that seemingly contributed to Cruise’s stature in Hollywood post- Cocktail . Sure, his succeeding endeavors would prove the building blocks for the image he enjoys now. Regardless, the actor’s commitment to the 1988 picture illustrated to Hollywood that the then-young star was worth banking on.

The film glaringly asserted that depending on Cruise meant he would leave no stone unturned in seeing to fruition whatever was assigned to him—even when the effort in question could’ve been passed off as a money grab or one of the many credits in one’s filmography that act as filler spaces before the next best thing comes along.

But that just isn’t how Tom Cruise does things.

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If his efforts to go all-in weren’t blatant in  Top Gun —a film that first illustrated the power behind Cruise’s stardom— Cocktail , which didn’t rival the preceding film in any metric, was proof enough. Even for a pursuit that many actors could’ve brushed off as an endeavor that wouldn’t need honing of one particular skill, Cruise stood apart from the crowd and went to extreme lengths in giving tangibility to the character of Brian Flanagan.

In an old interview, the bona fide star revealed the homework that went into his portrayal of the character in  Cocktail . Talking to  CBC , Tom Cruise affirmed,  “When I started out, I interviewed about 35 bartenders.”  In learning their craft and seeking their assistance to nail the realism of the premise, the actor demonstrated having put his best foot forward for the endeavor, even when it meandered into his worst-rated film. 

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This penchant for ‘doing’ rather than merely ‘showing’ proved that Tom Cruise will stop at nothing to ensure that a task is to the highest standards. Instead of relying on Cocktail as a buffer between other opportunities or an acting gig snagged purely from a profitable perspective, Cruise prioritized the practicality and the art that characterizes filmmaking.

And these traits are reflected in his legacy and branding even today!

In putting the same effort he would in the impossible stunt sequences that characterized much of his career later on, Cruise’s stint in the 1988 romantic comedy-drama may have sealed the deal on his authenticity. It proved the actor loves doing what he does—that he reveres the craft above all.

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Therefore, Cocktail may have failed to impress the critics and audiences of the time, but it showcased Tom Cruise’s status of a box office draw against all odds, ultimately making him an actor Hollywood studios could invest in and rely upon.

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Tom Cruise appears to have found a new iconic location to pull off his famous stuntwork.

On Saturday, Cruise, 61, was seen with a film crew at the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills as the Top Gun: Maverick star scaled the famed landmark.

The actor wore an all-black t-shirt, pants and shoes for the shoot and at one point flashed his abs from underneath his shirt. Largely thanks to his long-running Mission: Impossible series, Cruise has become synonymous with the dangerous stunts seen in the action-packed films.

A representative for Cruise did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment Monday. It's unclear what Cruise was filming on Saturday.

Cruise last appeared onscreen in Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning , which brought back his character Ethan Hunt for a seventh entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible series. The movie made $172 million at the domestic box office and also received two nominations at the recent 96th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound.

A title for the eighth film in the series has not yet been announced.

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Cruise also has several other projects in development. In February, PEOPLE confirmed that he will star in the next movie from filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu ( The Revenant, Birdman ), and The Hollywood Reporter reported in January that Top Gun 3 is in development at Paramount, with Maverick filmmaker Joseph Kosinski in talks to direct a follow-up to 2022's highest-grossing movie.

The actor has also been planning to film a movie in outer space for a number of years now as part of a project first announced by NASA back  in 2020. Doug Liman, the filmmaker with whom Cruise made 2014's  Edge of Tomorrow  and 2017's  American Made , is directing that movie . Universal Pictures executive Donna Langley shared in a 2022 BBC news interview that Cruise plans to become the " first civilian to do a space walk outside of the [International] Space Station " as part of the untitled film.

“We’ve been working on it diligently,” Cruise told Variety in July 2023, when asked for an update on the project. “We’ll see where we go.”

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