An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
A plot that goes AWOL in the interests of true love, and Roberts, as the kid from Coke, who is well on his way to becoming the world's worst actor.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
[A] mild, uneven social satire.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
An oddball comedy that is particularly well-timed to coincide with the current Coke marketing circus.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The film's cutting edge is never very keen.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Yhe mix of earthy symbolism, offbeat eroticism, the picaresque and the rough-and-tumble social, rather unpolitical satire now seems poured from a bottle that has been left uncapped overnight.