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Cocktail

When he pours, he reigns.

1988 · 1h 44m · R Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Roger Donaldson

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Overview

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.

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Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money.

Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
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It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Very, very stupid.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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Cruise is beguiling with his smile and his swagger, but the script doesn't take us anywhere fresh when it leaves the barroom.

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune

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