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Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Cocktail
When he pours, he reigns.
1988 · 1h 44m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Roger Donaldson
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Cocktail
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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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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