Cocktail Review
By Christopher Null
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.
Facts and Figures
Year: 1988
Run time: 104 mins
In Theaters: Friday 29th July 1988
Box Office Worldwide: $171.5M
Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures
Production compaines: Touchstone Pictures
Reviews
Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 5%
Fresh: 2 Rotten: 38
IMDB: 5.7 / 10
Cast & Crew
Director: Roger Donaldson
Producer: Robert W. Cort, Ted Field
Screenwriter: Heywood Gould
Starring: Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan, Bryan Brown as Douglas "Doug" Coughlin, Elisabeth Shue as Jordan Mooney, Lisa Banes as Bonnie, Kelly Lynch as Kerry Coughlin, Gina Gershon as Coral
Also starring: Laurence Luckinbill, Ted Field, Heywood Gould
