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Cocktail [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures ; screenplay, Heywood Gould ; producers, Ted Field and Robert W. Cort ; director, Roger Donaldson.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 24446 | Touchstone Home VideoPublication details: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video, 1988.Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0788832786
  • 9780788832789
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Screenplay, Heywood Gould ; producers, Ted Field and Robert W. Cort ; director, Roger Donaldson.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue.Summary: Tom Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a young confident and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro, becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life.
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Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect "rich chick" who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending act, taking five minutes to a mix a drink as they dance and toss gin bottles behind the bar to cutting-edge rock music circa 1988. The patrons, instead of demanding the booze, are dazzled by their antics and cheer them on. As a result, the bartenders become wildly popular -- in particular, Brian, who finds the bar babes falling all over each other to hop into the sack with him. As a result of their bar-tending success, they get hired to tend bar at a swanky disco, but there Brian and Doug have a falling out, and Brian takes off for Jamaica. There he meets vacationing New York City waitress Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue) and the two fall in love. But then Brian meets rich New York fashion executive Bonnie (Lisa Banes) who wants to take Brian back to Manhattan with her to become her drink-mixing stud. When Jordan sees this, the love affair is put on hold. But not for long, as pangs of consciousness begin to filter through Brian's drunken haze. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Based on the book by Heywood Gould.

Screenplay, Heywood Gould ; producers, Ted Field and Robert W. Cort ; director, Roger Donaldson.

Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue.

Tom Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a young confident and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro, becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life.

Rated R.

DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

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