Top billed cast

1. 

   Tom Cruise

   Brian Flanagan

2. 

   Bryan Brown

   Douglas "Doug" Coughlin

3. 

   Elisabeth Shue

   Jordan Mooney

4. 

   Lisa Banes

   Bonnie

5. 

   Kelly Lynch

   Kerry Coughlin

6. 

   Gina Gershon

   Coral

7. 

   Ron Dean

   Uncle Pat

8. 

   Ellen Foley

   Eleanor

9. 

   Chris Owens

   Soldier

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2023-09-10

**_Fun 80’s flick starts shallow, gets deeper_**

Bent on financial success, a young ex-soldier (Tom Cruise) becomes an expert bartender in Manhattan while attending college in order to make it on Wall Street. Then a dream surfaces to establish a nightclub in Jamaica. Bryan Brown plays his cynical mentor while Elisabeth Shue and Lisa Banes are on hand as romantic interests.

“Cocktail” (1988) is an entertaining Cruise-led 80’s flick that starts energetic, amusing and shallow but, thankfully, fleshes out the characters for something deeper. It’s fun in a snappy way, yet hindered b...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$20,000,000.00

Revenue
$171,504,781.00

Keywords

• new york city
• jamaica
• night life
• bartender
• ambition
• rags to riches
• cocktail