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Cocktail
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
1988 · Directed by Roger Donaldson · 104 min · Romance · Drama · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
When he pours, he reigns.
Crew
- Screenplay: Heywood Gould
- Cinematography: Dean Semler
- Edited by: Neil Travis
- Music: J. Peter Robinson
- Production design: Mel Bourne
- Produced by: Robert W. Cort, Ted Field
Cast
- 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
- Ron Dean as Uncle Pat
- Ellen Foley as Eleanor
- Chris Owens as Soldier
- Louis Ferreira as Soldier
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Studios: Interscope Communications, Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $171,504,781
- Themes: new york city, jamaica, night life, bartender, ambition, rags to riches, cocktail
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