Cocktail (1988)

When he pours, he reigns.

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.

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Written by: Heywood Gould

Music by: J. Peter Robinson

Starring: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Ron Dean, Ellen Foley, Chris Owens, Louis Ferreira

Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy

Released: 1988-07-29

Runtime: 104 minutes

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Cocktail (1988): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Despite being overwhelmingly panned by critics, and winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the film was a huge box office success, grossing $171.5 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 1988.
• The film was based on Heywood Gould's semi-autobiographical novel published in 1984.
• Cocktail grossed $78.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $93.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $171.5 million, ranking as the eighth highest-grossing film of 1988 worldwide.
• Released on July 29, 1988, by Buena Vista Pictures (under its adult film label Touchstone Pictures), Cocktail features an original music score composed by J. Peter Robinson.
• Tom Cruise expressed interest in playing the role of Brian Flanagan, which helped get it financed.
• During the love scene between Coral and Brian, when Cruise grabbed Gina Gershon's stomach, she accidentally struck him in the nose with her knee.
• The website's consensus reads: "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."
• The film used various locations along the North Shore of Jamaica, featuring such real-life locations as the Jamaica Inn, Dunn's River Falls, Dragon Bay Beach and the Sandals Royal Plantation.

Source: Wikipedia

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