Cocktail 1988

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 99 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: romantic comedy

director: Roger Donaldson

Score: 6 / 10

Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson from a screenplay by Heywood Gould, and based on Gould's book of the same name. It stars Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue. It tells the story of a young New York City business student, who takes up bartending in order to make ends meet.

Plot

Cocky Brian Flanagan, just finished with his stint in the army, heads back to NYC and is eager to land a high-powered job in the business world. When he fails, he settles for work as a bartender while attending business school during the day.

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More details

author	Heywood Gould
award	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
contentLocation	Jamaica New York City
director	Roger Donaldson
editor	Neil Travis
genre	comedy-drama social
keywords	art exhibit art exhibition bartender business school commodity commodity market date flair flair bartending flairing franchise hotel room how to id married morning nyc open park avenue security guard suicide suicide note walk want
musicBy	J. Peter Robinson Maurice Jarre
nomination	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
productionCompany	Interscope Communications Silver Screen Partners III Touchstone Pictures
publisher	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
recordedAt	New Jersey New York City
theme	romantic comedy romantic drama