Cocktail Movie Review
Cocktail Review
"Cocktail" Overview
Rating: R
1988
Cast and Crew
Director : Roger DonaldsonProducer : Robert W. Cort,Ted Field
Screenwiter : Heywood Gould
Starring : Tom Cruise,Bryan Brown,Elisabeth Shue,Lisa Banes,Laurence Luckinbill,Kelly Lynch,Gina Gershon
Before there was Coyote Ugly, there was Cocktail.
The story of an ex-G.I. (Cruise) who can't get a job in the Manhattan business
world and turns to bartending to make his fortune is as a bartender, pouring
with style, jumping on the counter, and spouting poetry. The love story with
rich girl Elisabeth Shue is hilarious -- but watch for Kelly Lynch and Gina
Gershon, both unknown at the time, in small tryst roles.
Overall, it's ridiculous (not to mention Cruises' hairdo), but Cocktail is a
real classic of the late-80s self-help moviemaking genre.
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Review by Christopher Null 
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