Cocktail (1988)
- Starring:
- Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, (more)
- Director(s):
- Roger Donaldson
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect "rich chick" who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending act, taking five minutes to a mix a drink as they dance and toss gin bottles behind the bar to cutting-edge rock music circa 1988. The patrons, instead of demanding the booze, are dazzled by their antics and cheer them on. As a result, the bartenders become wildly popular -- in particular, Brian, who finds the bar babes falling all over each other to hop into the sack with him. As a result of their bar-tending success, they get hired to tend bar at a swanky disco, but there Brian and Doug have a falling out, and Brian takes off for Jamaica. There he meets vacationing New York City waitress Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue) and the two fall in love. But then Brian meets rich New York fashion executive Bonnie (Lisa Banes) who wants to take Brian back to Manhattan with her to become her drink-mixing stud. When Jordan sees this, the love affair is put on hold. But not for long, as pangs of consciousness begin to filter through Brian's drunken haze. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 103 mins
Complete Cast of Cocktail
- Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan
- Elisabeth Shue - Jordan Mooney
- Laurence Luckinbill - Mr. Mooney
- Gina Gershon - Coral
- Ellen Foley - Eleanor
- E. Hampton Beagle - Job Interviewer
- Paul Benedict - Finance Teacher
- Allan Wasserman - Job Interviewer
- Liisa Repo-Martell - Young Couple in Deli
- Chris Owens - Soldier
- Andrea Morse - Dulcy
- Rosalyn Marshall - Job Interviewer
- James Mainprize - Butler
- Dan MacDonald - Priest
- Robert Greenberg - Job Interviewer
- Adam Furfaro - Young Couple in Deli
- Richard Livingston - Job Interviewer
- John Graham - Soldier
- John Lyons
- Kim Nelles - Female Artist
- Gregg Baker - Bouncer
- Paul Abbott - Snotty Customer
- Jeff Silverman - Job Interviewer
- Parker Whitman - Job Interviewer
- Robert Donley - Eddie
- Larry Block - Bar Owner
- Kelly Connell - Yuppie Poet
- Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin
- Lisa Banes - Bonnie
- Kelly Lynch - Kerry Coughlin
- Ron Dean - Uncle Pat
- Gerry Bamman - Tourist
- Reathel Bean - Tourist
- Dianne Heatherington - First Waitress
- George Sperdakos - English Teacher
- Jean Pflieger - Job Interviewer
- Jack Newman - Economics Teacher
- Ken McGregor - Sculptor
- Arlene Mazerolle - Waitress
- Ellen Maguire - Bar Patron
- Luther Hansraj - Ambulance Attendant
- Leroy Gibbons - Singer
- Diane Douglass - Mrs. Rivkin
- David Crowley - Doorman
- Donna Isaacson
- Joseph Zaccone - Bar Patron
- David Chant - Chinese Porter
- Harvey Alperin - Job Interviewer
- Lew Saunders - Job Interviewer
- Bill Bateman - Job Interviewer
- Justin Louis - Soldier
- James Eckhouse - Tourist
- Peter Boyden - Tourist
- Rich Crater - Job Interviewer
- Director(s):
- Roger Donaldson
- Writer(s):
- Heywood Gould
- Producer(s):
- Ted Field, Robert W. Cort
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Profanity, Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Situations)
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