Intoxicating Effects-Stumbling, harmonizing, soused sex, brawling, passing out, and hangover Others beware.ĭrinks Consumed-Beer, Red Eye cocktail (beer, tomato juice, spices, & egg), Turquoise Blue cocktail (Bacardi rum, Blue Curacao, & pineapple juice), Daiquiri (rum, lime juice, sugar, & crushed ice), Champagne, white wine, Lois XIII brandy, and various unnamed cocktails Still, the film is only recommended for the most stout-hearted of soused cinema enthusiasts. ![]() There are adult beverages galore on display in Cocktail, and the film is undeniably important in drink culture for helping to popularize flair bartending, which involves tossing around bottles and bar tools while preparing mixed drinks. Robot and Tom Servo to show up make fun of the proceedings, but I ended up having to rag on the flick myself. The filmmaking and actors are competent, but the dialogue Cruise and company are forced to recite is so laughably bad that it is impossible to take any of it seriously. Flanagan manages to torpedo his relationship with Jordan through another bar bet with Coughlin and then a bunch of other stuff happens, but I’m guessing by now that you’ve lost interest.Ĭocktail is loud, slick, and vapid-the cinematic equivalent of junk food. Around this time, Doug also shows up in Jamaica with a hot, rich wife (Kelly Lynch) that has a proclivity for wearing skimpy swimsuits that show off her buttocks. There he falls for a vacationing blonde, Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue). Three years later, Brian is tending bar and juggling bottles in Jaimaca, while trying to save up money to open his own place. However, the friendship/partnership breaks up due to a bet over Flanagan’s girlfriend (Gina Gershon). ![]() Soon Brian and Doug’s showboating saloon skills are in such demand that they move up to a trendy nightclub, serving yuppies and heiresses with big hair. Initially, Flanagan doesn’t know a Singapore Sling from a Kamikaze, but the experienced bartender, Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown), helps the newbie master mixology and numerous flashy bar tricks. When he is unable to find a lucrative position, due to his lack of education and experience, he takes a bartending job at T.G.I. Tom Cruise smugly swaggers through the flick as Brian Flanagan, an army veteran freshly out of the service, who is looking to make it rich in NYC. Let my trauma serve as a warning to keep other viewers from suffering the same fate. I had to watch Cocktail in documenting the booziest films of all time. For those lucky enough to have missed the movie (or the decade for that matter), I would advise steering far clear of this glossy piece of trash. USA/C-104m./Dir: Roger Donaldson/Wr: Heywood Gould/Cast: Tom Cruise (Brian Flanagan), Bryan Brown (Doug Coughlin), Elisabeth Shue (Jordan Mooney), Kelly Lynch (Kerry Coughlin), Gina Gershon (Coral), Ron Dean (Uncle Pat)Ĭocktail manages to present the worst of the 1980’s-greed, machismo, feathered hair, annoying pop songs, and general douche-baggery-in a tight 104-minute package. Booze News: Laurel & Hardy finally arrive on U.S.
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