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Cocktail

Cocktail

1988
Romance, Comedy
1h 44m
A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love. (imdb)

Directed by:

Roger Donaldson

Screenwriter:

Heywood Gould

Starring:

Bryan Brown, Kelly Lynch, Tom Cruise, Gina Gershon, Elisabeth Shue, James Eckhouse, Paul Benedict, Ellen Foley, Ron Dean, Lisa Banes, Laurence Luckinbill, Robert Donley

Genres:

Romance, Comedy, Drama

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, Spanish Sign Language
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Cocktail

1988
Romance, Comedy
1h 44m
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barthalenBarthalen
Rated 04 Dec 2014
21
11th
IMDB trivia: in most non-American countries this movie was released under the alternate title "Douchebags".
Rated 04 Dec 2014
recklessmessrecklessmess
Rated 12 Feb 2008
40
23rd
Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya to the toilet, and flush ya, right down the crapper.
Rated 12 Feb 2008
shmendrekShmendrek
Rated 11 Feb 2008
1
10th
Tom Cruise is fucking gross. That cockeyed smile he makes through the entire movie made me want to throw up. Such a throwaway.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
ytadelYtadel
Rated 22 Jul 2023
3
28th
There’s only like two or three Tom Cruise movies I haven’t seen yet so I figure I’ll just polish off the rest. This one is… not great. Not BORING…. But not great either. It’s actually better in the first stretch when it’s just like a filmed party and doing trick bartending, when it gets more of a plot later on and romance stuff it goes pretty sharply downhill.
Rated 22 Jul 2023
spamhead80spamhead80
Rated 03 Jun 2013
45
7th
Holy shit, I used to love this movie when I was a stupid teenager. I watched it over and over again, and I loved Tom Cruise with a burning adolescent passion. As I've gotten older (and wiser), both Tom and this movie have lost their allure. It's a cliched mess.
Rated 03 Jun 2013
pickpocketPickpocket
Rated 19 Jun 2007
1
12th
cruise keeping it real
Rated 19 Jun 2007
farzanFarzan
Rated 24 Apr 2007
27
15th
tom cruise, tom cruise, you fucker.
Rated 24 Apr 2007
wixwinWixwin
Rated 29 May 2024
8
24th
what mates are really for
Rated 29 May 2024
icarusIcarus
Rated 21 Apr 2024
40
8th
Shue is radiant and Brown is doing something interesting, but I just find Cruise's good guy image so shallow. Further, the movie makes no sense in multiple ways, not least of which is why Cruise just goes along with Brown's friendship act in Jamaica--dude stabs you in the back, but he's funny and confident so it's ok?
Rated 21 Apr 2024
nathanbatesNathanBates
Rated 23 Mar 2024
40
5th
The first interminable half is spent watching bar choreography (which gets old quick) and Cruise's bright smile. The second half they attempt to squeeze in a whole movie's worth of an awkward love story which has only slightly fewer moments of Cruise smiling. And even the soundtrack can't quite hit all the right notes, although it's about the best thing here. (The guy who wasn't Michael Caine was decent, too.)
Rated 23 Mar 2024
kavuKavu
Rated 08 Jan 2024
58
28th
Honestly wasn't so awful. Cruise is as Cruise always is. Everything from music to writing is as 80s as possible.
Rated 08 Jan 2024
hadleyreisHadleyreis
Rated 18 Jun 2022
45
21st
Tom Schmooze
Rated 18 Jun 2022
overratedoverrated
Rated 18 Mar 2022
9
3rd
Ah so this is the piece of shit Kokomo's from.
Rated 18 Mar 2022
esperhartEsperHart
Rated 15 Mar 2021
5
3rd
https://esperwatchesfilms.tumblr.com/post/645738965781168128/cocktail-1988
Rated 15 Mar 2021
decanusellisDecanusEllis
Rated 04 Jan 2021
76
48th
After Cruise leaves Jamaica this film kind of gets serious and it isn't very serious when it happens, more like laughable. But, watching this with a couple of drinks, a couple of shots and some great company, I have to admit, it is pretty darn fun. Coughlin's Law: Bury the dead. They stink up the joint. As for the rest of Coughlin's Laws, ignore them. The guy was always full of shit.
Rated 04 Jan 2021
jasoo2jasoo2
Rated 17 Oct 2020
60
55th
Interesting story arc, and the movie actually gets better from its opening, vapid, nauseatingly braggadocious scenes.
Rated 17 Oct 2020
mandymandy
Rated 11 Jun 2019
3
2nd
Colourful representation of a fantasy view of life in the 1980's. Definitely not the best Tom Cruise film of that era.
Rated 11 Jun 2019
moribunnyMoribunny
Rated 16 May 2019
45
33rd
Saccharine, tacky, puritanical 80s romcom that I found surprisingly easy to rewatch all those years later. It does have a good rhythm and a certain bygone sincerity.
Rated 16 May 2019
bizortbizort
Rated 24 May 2018
40
16th
Tom Cruise is completely over the top and ridiculous through most of this, and it makes the middle third of the film on par with some of the most entertaining bad films of all time. He cannot play someone drunk at all, or a bartender, but his older counterpart plays a bartender very well and kind of saves him. The rest of the story is nonsense. Who goes to a bar to watch a bartender do tricks? And there are bartender rankings?
Rated 24 May 2018
fuzzleshnopsfuzzleshnops
Rated 18 Apr 2018
5
3rd
Not even the bright, colorful 80s vibe was strong enough to even make this an anthropological documentary on culture of the time. Because obviously the actual screenwriting was atrocious.
Rated 18 Apr 2018
rottentRottenT
Rated 19 Mar 2018
5
3rd
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.
Rated 19 Mar 2018
sirstuckeySirStuckey
Rated 26 Nov 2014
30
7th
At first I thought it was misogynistic, then I realized it painted men just as horribly.
Rated 26 Nov 2014
age_jellemaAge Jellema
Rated 25 Nov 2014
40
6th
Bleeeh
Rated 25 Nov 2014
wicheWiche
Rated 20 Jul 2014
73
66th
Throughout the entire film I had the idea that we got to see certain things which had absolutely nothing to do with the actual plot, like the opening scene for example. On top of that, this is just another clichéd lovestory, but Cruise brought it overwhelmingly charming, which made me enhoy this film more than I probably should have.
Rated 20 Jul 2014
funkyastroFunkyAstro
Rated 05 Jul 2014
20
22nd
I saw this once.
Rated 05 Jul 2014
m3tanm3tan
Rated 03 May 2014
15
9th
The worst of a string of Cruise movies from 1985-1992 with IDENTICAL plots: Brash young man with uncommon talent (insert cool profession here) is mentored by an older and wiser version of himself, while romancing a woman out of his league. I recommend viewing in this descending order of watchabilty: Born on the Fourth of July (soldier), Top Gun (fighter pilot), The Color of Money (pool hustler), Far and Away (settler), Days of Thunder (race car driver), Legend (warrior), Cocktail (bartender)...
Rated 03 May 2014
wwallce4prezWWallce4prez
Rated 30 Nov 2013
25
2nd
Complete horseshit
Rated 30 Nov 2013
syvyyssyvyys
Rated 25 Mar 2013
80
48th
more poets!
Rated 25 Mar 2013
bellamyrbellamyr
Rated 30 Dec 2012
60
29th
Too sacharin to be a love in the afternoon - not enough humour to be a woo-woo and lacks the charm to be a Kir Royal or Flirtini.. Cruise is far more of a pink squirrel rather than the Prince of Wales and the plot is shallow dry and a bit of a horses neck. Given the time I saw it, this is less cosmopolitan and more death in the afternoon.
Rated 30 Dec 2012
lauftLäuft.
Rated 25 Sep 2012
36
10th
I actually liked the beginning, but as soon as the lovestory kicks in the movie gets incredibly boring.
Rated 25 Sep 2012
ag0stomesmerAg0stoMesmer
Rated 30 Jul 2012
2
46th
Don't remember hating it but, it was a long time ago and I wasn't as grouchy back then.
Rated 30 Jul 2012
cwaitscwaits
Rated 21 Jun 2012
70
21st
I know this movie is not very good, but I love watching it over and over. Elizabeth Shue is pretty hot too. so is tom cruise.
Rated 21 Jun 2012
baggerBagger
Rated 19 Mar 2012
56
25th
Tom Cruise doesn't know what an aglet is.
Rated 19 Mar 2012
antaresAntares
Rated 01 Apr 2011
18
1st
Just look at the image for the movie poster. Don't you just want to take a vodka bottle and smack him right upside his head? I tended bar for close to 30 years, believe me, this film is fantasy, full of fecal matter. I've yet to meet a bartender who thinks this is a good movie. The only reason I don't rate it with a single digit rating is because when Bryan Brown is onscreen, he steals the picture from the clueless Cruise.
Rated 01 Apr 2011
mechatiggerMechatigger
Rated 26 Mar 2011
14
2nd
Empty excuse for a movie. Cruise's charm is relied upon to the exclusion of anything else in the film, such as plot or characterization. Eighties big-studio moviemaking at its worst.
Rated 26 Mar 2011
genesiskelGeneSiskel
Rated 01 Jan 2011
63
28th
Tom Cruise does with bartending pretty much what he did with a pool cue in "The Color of Money." In other words, he shows skill at a con game while being less successful with the woman in his life.
Rated 01 Jan 2011
nuotionuotio
Rated 12 Nov 2010
55
50th
This was surprisingly entertaining: it’s got a good cast - Cruise suits his role very well, as do Shue and Gershon, but the standout is Bryan Brown as the mentor. Story-wise it’s nothing special, and I didn’t remember that a large part of it takes place in Jamaica. It's also quite mixed in tone; it gets surprisingly dark towards the end which is in contrast with the cheesy 80’s imagery. Works best as a yuppie time-capsule.
Rated 12 Nov 2010
hellboy76hellboy76
Rated 25 Sep 2010
30
8th
Really cheesy script, poor acting and that fucking Beach Boys song makes me want to stab someone in the eye.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
sinclairSinclair
Rated 01 Sep 2010
52
6th
If anyone other than Tom Cruise was in this movie, no one would even know it exists.
Rated 01 Sep 2010
bookhouseboybookhouseboy
Rated 26 Aug 2010
24
15th
#90s(e)#, popcorn, Elisabeth S, rewatch(2) }*{ #80s#, story, Elisabeth S, T Cruise
Rated 26 Aug 2010
gorejunkygorejunky
Rated 16 Aug 2010
60
12th
Typical 80's Cruise romance. I think he's very likable in this role and the supporting cast does a good job with the drivel script they are given.
Rated 16 Aug 2010
gritGrit
Rated 05 Mar 2010
13
10th
Just when you thought you'd had enough of that chauvinistic pig to last a lifetime, here comes yet another vomit inducing pile of tripe.
Rated 05 Mar 2010
mlpgaffneymlpgaffney
Rated 19 Aug 2009
67
25th
This movie is actually pretty awful and the only thing that makes it watchable for me is remembering Ben Stiller's imitation on the Mission Impossible 2 extras (from the MTV Movie Awards).
Rated 19 Aug 2009
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 31 Jul 2009
5
4th
Sleazier than Peter Stringfellow in a thong. One to avoid.
Rated 31 Jul 2009
pigletPiglet
Rated 10 Jun 2009
70
59th
Cruise-sleeze as usual in the 80s. Bryan Brown steals every scene he's in.
Rated 10 Jun 2009
ivytivyt
Rated 14 Apr 2009
10
4th
Typical '80s movie, with a theme song, sex on the beach and everything!
Rated 14 Apr 2009
councillorCouncillor
Rated 20 Jan 2009
11
8th
cock
Rated 20 Jan 2009
essoEsso
Rated 02 Nov 2008
68
6th
pfffffff
Rated 02 Nov 2008
thedenizenTheDenizen
Rated 12 Oct 2008
20
6th
90 minutes of Tom Cruise flashing his pearly whites and flipping bottles of booze around his head.
Rated 12 Oct 2008
irvinejumpirvinejump
Rated 17 Aug 2008
40
25th
it's been awhile, but simply remember this as BLAH
Rated 17 Aug 2008
plovisPlovis
Rated 02 Jun 2008
69
32nd
As far as early Cruise goes, this wasn't too bad.
Rated 02 Jun 2008
miss_jesusmiss jesus
Rated 24 Apr 2008
24
6th
So it's a bad movie about people I don't like enjoying the Caribbean, AND watching it requires looking at Tom Cruise for an hour and a half? What--you say this raucous, fun-loving film contains unwanted pregnancy, suicide, and alcohol poisoning? Hold on, I have to claw my eyes out.
Rated 24 Apr 2008
spoonerspotspoonerspot
Rated 30 Mar 2008
79
58th
Elisabeth Shue= yummy
Rated 30 Mar 2008
wcnitzwcnitz
Rated 08 Mar 2008
74
30th
Entertaining on the first watch, but the more you see it the more you realize it's a story without substance, character or compelling people. Bryan Brown is a bright spot.
Rated 08 Mar 2008
stflyst_fly
Rated 23 Aug 2007
34
33rd
ok
Rated 23 Aug 2007
alex_watkinsAlex Watkins
Rated 14 Aug 2007
1
7th
Whatever, I have almost nothing to say about this. "A rum and fucking Coke?!"
Rated 14 Aug 2007
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 21 Feb 2007
45
25th
Passes the time.
Rated 21 Feb 2007
snarkysnarky
Rated 01 Feb 2007
80
52nd
A little cheesy, but fun.
Rated 01 Feb 2007
easydiffeasydiff
Rated 04 Dec 2006
70
76th
Coughlin's Law: You will adore this movie.
Rated 04 Dec 2006

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