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Cocktail

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I was really happy to find this dvd I do remember seeing this movie many times years ago. The packaging was great and the delivery was quick. Really happy with my purchase.

My daughter bought this one and has watched numerous times already. She couldn't find this DVD anywhere but here Thanks Amazon!!!

Brian Flanagan(Tom Cruise) plans with his middle-aged buddy Doug(Bryan Brown) to open a cocktail bar Cocktails & Dreams. He studies bartending at a community college. The professor(Paul Benedict of TV's The Jeffersons) threatened to fail Brian after making a harsh comment. At his first bartending job,while fresh in college,Brian doesn't toss around the booze and glasses like novice bartenders do. As his skills improved,Brian had the patrons singing,"Addicted To Love",the late Robert Palmer's hit song. While on holiday in Jamaica with Doug and Doug's new bride(Kelly Lynch),Brian meets a pretty girl named Jordyne Mooney(Elisabeth Shue). Jordyne's girlfriend passed out on the beach after a champagne binge and a sunbath. Brian saved the girlfriend's life. Brian and Jordyne are romantically involved until Jordyne catches Brian with another woman,this one wealthy like Doug's new wife. Doug made a bet that Brian can't hook up with a wealthy woman. Brian accepted the bet since it was a dare. When Brian visits Jerry's Deli back in New York,where Jordyne works as a waitress,Jordyne drenches him with various entrees. Brian showed up at Jerry's to apologize to Jordyne for hurting her,but had no chance to do so. So Brian goes to Jordyne's penthouse apartment where he meets her father Richard(Laurence Luckinbill). Richard offers $10,000 to "get Brian out of Jordyne's life". Jordyne's is now pregnant with twins and Brian is the father. Brian tears up Richard's written check("This is how hung up on money I am."). Doug wound up drinking himself to death on a vessel. Brian returns to the Mooneys' apartment and proposes to Jordyne. At the newly opened Flanagan's,Brian and his new wife are toasted by Brian's uncle,who himself owns a tavern. Director Roger Donaldson subsequently directed 1990's CADILLAC MAN.

God what a turkey! But it was the 80's afterall.

this 'movie' is the most excerable lesson in bad marketing, mass production over art and a super egotistical 'star' whose hang ups about his height have overwhelmed to the degree that everything he does, every choice he makes, further renders him as hollow.
this is TOM 'VERY DULL KEN DOLL' CRUISE at his worst.
this whole movie out to prove his studliness 'hey gals watch me shake this tom collins'.
ooooh baby.
rake up another million tommy boy,
but in years to come you'll be forgotten (unlike the far greater artist; johnny depp, who turned down this piece of junk, as he did top gun and days of thunder).

Granted, it's cheesy, but when you look beyond the simple story and thrown in plot twists, it's awesome!! To pick up your life, live and work in the sun and then fall in love with a beautiful woman you meet on an island - sounds like evry guy's dream, right? At least mine. I'll live vicariously through Tom, since it wouldn't work for me. This has always been an under-rated movie, but any red-blooded guy should be able to identify. Great acting thrown in for free!

Essentially, "Cocktail" is nothing more than your average 'popcorn flick'. However, it is a darn good one. What was surprisingly nice about this film was that it actually had a mature amount of depth to it. It is also overflowing with big-name stars such as Tom Cruise (Risky Business), Elizabeth Shue (Adventures in Babysitting), and Bryan Brown (The Thorn Birds). But, the supporting characters happen to be so fascinating that at times it's hard to focus on anything else. In addition to this, the film has glorious cinematography- especially the scenes set in the tropics. Another thing "Cocktail" has going for it is its soundtrack: great 80s music!! At its heart, "Cocktail" is nothing more than the same romantic fluff you have seen hundreds of times before- but it is presented in such a nice package that who really cares?

This is one of the funniest movies that I have ever seen in my life. Imagine this....cast your mind....Tom Cruise plays an aspiring business student who is looking for ye olde get rich quick scheme. Along the way he discovers that he needs money to do things and decides to take up bartending. He goes under the tutelage of a bartender he meets named Douglas Cogland. Cogland then tells him the rules of the bartending game...."Cogland's Law." He acts as if he's this all knowing wiseman but he's really a diluded dumba$$ who thinks he has everything figured out.

They become a big hit tossing bottles back and forth at some high class bar, but Cruise soon wants out of this. So he leaves and goes to Jamaica. Whilst in Jamaica he meets Elizabeth Shue who he falls in love with. They get off to the most typical start possible...she doesn't like him at first because he's a bartender. Then Doug reenters his life and tells him he has gotten married and is rich....only because his wife is rich. Doug found the easy way to the top but the flavor is more than he can handle. Doug realizes that his life is shallow and meaningless, and that he knows nothing. So he breaks this 40 year old bottle of bourbon and cuts his throat....but he leaves a lovely letter in which there is narration when Tom Cruise reads it. Bryan Brown does some great narration by adding an inappropriate laugh in the midst of discussing his way out. Like young Flannigan is going to think about how Cogland reads the note to him if he were still alive. That's writing at it's finest and acting that is unbeatable....by dinosaurs. Now before all of this happens Flannigan (Cruise) has a wonderful time with Jordan (Shue), has [physical activity], goes to bed with another woman, upsets Jordan, goes back to New York, sees her, tries to talk to her, she pours food on his head, she then tells him that she's prenant with his child, he tries to get her back but her father is the stereotypical father who "won't let his daughter throw her life away," ....

This movie had me laughing at every turn because the writing was so atrocious. There's nothing funnier to me than a bad script with no plot. The movie is over an hour and a half and any person who is breathing and conscious can deduce the meaning of the movie in three seconds.

Doesn't the poster of the movie tell you all you need to know? Tom Cruise standing under a neon sign that says Cocktail. Add those factors up and that equals horrendous movie. This is a crime against humanity but at least you get a mountain of unintentional laughs out of it.

"Cogland's Law!!!: ...

This began as a so-so film for me, sort of light and easy to watch, until it reached the part where Tom Cruise takes up with the wealthy woman in New York and becomes a kept man. I gasped aloud in the theater, disturbing those around me. This brought back a flood of memories, let me tell you -- the way they think their wealth can dictate every facet of your life, they can tell you what to wear, they can control your entire schedule and boss you around. I fully recognized Tom's character's frustration, exhibited in a blaze of authentic kept-man acting (it was EXACTLY as I knew to behave, in those circumstances), the way he had to jump whenever she said "Froggy," and ask "How high?" while on the way up.

Tom's Brian Flanagan even managed the classic "gigolo face," that cocky spoiled-brat mask I remember so well in the mirror every morning, undercut by the knowledge that you're really little more than a temporary employee to a rich woman who will on a whim discard you like a band-aid removed from a festering armpit boil. Cruise's Brian coped well with the situation, until at last he was able to break away from the rich woman and pursue Elizabeth Shue again -- but the sad reality is, so many of us trapped in gigolo quicksand simply cannot extract ourselves that easily (and I suppose that's why we have Hollywood movies, for the escapism). I was very, very glad to see at least one man, though he be the fictional Brian, wrench himself out of the Kept Man status and resume a somewhat normal life with another rich girl. Speaking for all of my brothers in gigolo recovery, I praise this film for showing us that it just might be possible to break out of the luxurious, plush, golden-barred cages in which we stew not as men, but as kept men. Thank you Brian Flanagan, oh thank you.

What a great film! Stars Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown. You keep a steady grin throughout the first half of the movie. From catching the bus to NYC, to going to class with young Flanagan, through looking for work on Wall Street, and then finally meeting Coughlin. Later, a 25-year old Shue appears. What a great young woman! She's smart, fun, good sense of humor, and of course, very pretty. Any guy would be lucky to meet her (Oh yeah, we find out later that she's an original "rich chick").

You'll love the scenes of the old New York skyline and the beautifully breath-taking beaches of Jamaica, mon. A classic movie that everyone should watch and enjoy. Good songs and memorable quotes throughout as well.