Cocktail (1988 film)

1988 film by Roger Donaldson

Cocktail

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Roger Donaldson
Screenplay by| Heywood Gould
Based on| Cocktail
by Heywood Gould
Produced by|

* Ted Field
* Robert W. Cort

Starring|

* Tom Cruise
* Bryan Brown
* Elisabeth Shue

Cinematography| Dean Semler
Edited by| Neil Travis
Music by| J. Peter Robinson

Production
companies

* Touchstone Pictures
* Silver Screen Partners III
* Interscope Communications

Distributed by| Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

Release date

* July 29, 1988 (1988-07-29) (United States)

Running time

| 103 minutes[1]
Country| United States
Language| English
Budget| $20 million[2]
Box office| $171.5 million[3]

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 business student, who takes up bartending in order to make ends meet.

Released on July 29, 1988, by Buena Vista Pictures (under its adult film label Touchstone Pictures), Cocktail features an original music score composed by J. Peter Robinson. Despite earning overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, and winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the film was a huge box office success, grossing more than $170 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 1988.

## Plot

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Cocky Brian Flanagan, recently discharged from the army, heads home to New York City, hoping to land a high-powered business job. He fails and instead works as a bartender while attending business school.

Doug Coughlin, an older and experienced bartender, takes Brian under his wing and teaches him flair bartending. Doug shares his idea for a nationwide chain of bars called Cocktails & Dreams. Brian drops out of business school, and they become popular bartenders at a trendy nightclub.

Their flairing act attracts Coral, a wealthy photographer, and she and Brian start dating. Doug bets Brian that the relationship will not last and, unbeknownst to Brian, seduces Coral. When Brian finds out, he and Doug fight and dissolve their partnership.

Two years later, Brian is working at a beachside bar in Jamaica, hoping to save enough money for his own establishment. He meets artist Jordan Mooney and they begin a passionate relationship. Doug shows up, married to the wealthy, flirtatious and much younger Kerry, and bets Brian that he cannot attract Bonnie, a wealthy older woman. Brian accepts his challenge and wins Bonnie over. Jordan is devastated when she spots Brian and Bonnie drunkenly walking to Bonnie's hotel room. The next morning, Brian regrets the fling and seeks out Jordan, only to find she returned to the United States.

Brian returns to New York with Bonnie, hoping her influence will help get him the corporate job. He soon feels marginalized and resents her lifestyle. While attending an art exhibit, Brian has an altercation with the artist in front of Bonnie's friends, leading them to break up.

Brian tries to reconcile with Jordan, who angrily refuses. When calmer, she reveals she is pregnant with his child and does not want him in her life, not wanting to be hurt again. Brian tries again to talk to Jordan, but a neighbor says she moved into her parents’ upscale Park Avenue apartment. Jordan's father, Richard, tries to pay Brian off, but he refuses. Jordan explains that she hid her family's wealth because she wanted him to love her for herself. To prove how little he cares about money, he tears up her father's check and leaves.

Brian finds Doug on his yacht and believes he has finally achieved the financial success they both sought. However, Doug tells him that when his business began to fail, he invested all of Kerry's money in commodities and lost her entire wealth.

When Brian takes Kerry back to her apartment, she says she is bored with marriage and tries to seduce him, but he rebuffs her. He goes to Doug's boat and finds him dead from suicide. Kerry later mails Brian a letter that Doug left him, explaining that his life was a fraud.

Distraught, but determined to win Jordan over, Brian tries to visit her, but is stopped by security who have been instructed by Jordan's father not to admit him. He fights his way up to the apartment, tells Jordan about Doug's death, and says he does not want to make the same mistake by being too proud to ask for help. He says his Uncle Pat has given him a loan to start his own bar and confidently predicts that he will be successful.

Jordan hesitates, but Brian declares he loves her and wants to marry her. She agrees to take him back, but Richard interferes, leading to scuffle with a security guard. As they leave, Richard threatens that they are on their own, which Brians says he prefers.

Brian and Jordan marry. Brian achieves his goal of opening his own bar, Flanagan's Cocktails & Dreams, with dreams of nation-wide franchises. At the grand opening, Jordan whispers that she is expecting twins. To celebrate, and to his Uncle's dismay, he proclaims that drinks are on the house.

## Cast

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* Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan
* Bryan Brown as Doug Coughlin
* Elisabeth Shue as Jordan Mooney
* Lisa Banes as Bonnie
* Laurence Luckinbill as Richard Mooney
* Kelly Lynch as Kerry Coughlin
* Gina Gershon as Coral
* Ron Dean as Uncle Pat
* Ellen Foley as Eleanor
* Gerry Bamman as Tourist
* Larry Block as Bar Owner
* Paul Benedict as Finance Teacher
* Kenneth John McGregor as Sculptor

## Production

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### Script

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The film was based on Heywood Gould's semi-autobiographical[4] novel published in 1984. Gould had worked as a bartender in New York from 1969 to 1981 to support his writing career. Gould said he "met a lot of interesting people behind the bar and very rarely was it someone who started out wanting to be a bartender. They all had ambitions, some smoldering and some completely forgotten or suppressed."[5]

Gould says the lead character "is a composite of a lot of people I met, including myself in those days. I was in my late 30s, and I was drinking pretty good, and I was starting to feel like I was missing the boat. The character in the book is an older guy who has been around and starting to feel that he's pretty washed-up."[5]

Universal bought the film rights and Gould wrote the script, changing it from his novel. He says the studio put the project in turnaround "because I wasn't making the character likable enough."[5] Disney picked up the project "and I went through the same process with them. I would fight them at every turn, and there was a huge battle over making the lead younger, which I eventually did."[5]

Gould later admitted that the people who wanted him to make changes "were correct. They wanted movie characters. Characters who were upbeat and who were going to have a happy ending and a possible future in their lives. That's what you want for a big commercial Hollywood movie. So I tried to walk that thin line between giving them what they wanted and not completely betraying the whole arena of saloons in general."[5]

Tom Cruise expressed interest in playing the role, which helped get it financed. Rob Lowe auditioned for the role of Brian Flanagan.

"There were a lot of bartenders around like Tom Cruise, younger guys who came on and were doing this for a while—and then 10 years later, still doing it," said Gould. "It wasn't as if I was betraying the character. It was a matter of making the character more idealistic, more hopeful—he's got his life ahead of him. He turns on the charm, without the cynical bitter edge of the older guys."[5]

Bryan Brown later said the original script "was one of the very best screenplays I had ever read. Very dark... about the cult of celebrity and everything about it.... Tom Cruise is a very sweet man, he was then and still is. But when Tom came in, the movie had to change. The studio made the changes to protect the star and it became a much slighter movie because of it."[6]

### Casting

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Bryan Brown was cast on the strength of his performance in F/X.[7]

### Production

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Gould says the tricks involving throwing bottles was not in the book, but something he showed Cruise and Bryan Brown. They used it and it became a prominent feature of the film.[5]

During the love scene between Coral and Brian, when Cruise grabbed Gershon's stomach she accidentally struck him in the nose with her knee.[8]

The film used various locations along the North Shore of Jamaica, featuring such real-life locations as the Jamaica Inn, Dunn‘s River Falls, Dragon Bay Beach and the Sandals Royal Plantation.

### Post production

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A music score was originally done by Maurice Jarre. A new score was added at the last minute.[9]

Kelly Lynch later said the film "was actually a really complicated story about the '80s and power and money, and it was really re-edited where they completely lost my character's backstory—her low self-esteem, who her father was, why she was this person that she was—but it was obviously a really successful movie, if not as good as it could've been." She claimed Disney reshot "about a third of the film... and turned it into flipping the bottles and this and that.... But we had a really great time. And Tom was so much fun, just a ball to work with, both on and off camera."[10]

## Reception

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### Box office

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Cocktail earned $78.2 million at the North American box office, and $93.3 million international to a total of $171.5 million worldwide, almost nine times its $20 million budget, and ranking as the eighth highest-grossing film of 1988 worldwide.[3][11]

### Critical response

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Despite its box office success, Cocktail received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 9% of 45 film critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "There are no surprises in Cocktail, a shallow, dramatically inert romance that squanders Tom Cruise's talents in what amounts to a naive barkeep's banal fantasy."[12] On Metacritic, the film has a 12 out of 100 score based on 14 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[13] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[14]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave a negative review, calling it "an upscale, utterly brainless variation on those efficient old B-movies of the 1930s and 40s about the lives, loves and skills of coal miners, sand hogs, and telephone linemen, among others."[15] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times was also critical, explaining that "the more you think about what really happens in Cocktail, the more you realize how empty and fabricated it really is."[16]

"I was not happy with the final product," said Gould. "It got so savaged by the critics ... I was accused of betraying my own work, which is stupid. So I was pretty devastated. I literally couldn't get out of bed for a day. The good thing about that experience is that it toughened me up."[5]

In 1992, Cruise said the film "was not a crowning jewel" in his career.[17]

The official soundtrack single, The Beach Boys' "Kokomo", was commercially successful and topped the charts in the United States, Australia and Japan. The song was nominated for a Grammy and a Golden Globe.

### Accolades

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Cocktail won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay while Cruise was nominated as Worst Actor and Donaldson as Worst Director.[18] The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made".[19] The film was also nominated for Worst Picture at the 1988 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards but lost to Caddyshack II.[20]

Additionally, Cruise's other film in 1988 was his co-starring role in the Best Picture-winning film Rain Man, alongside Dustin Hoffman. In doing so, he became the first (and as of 2024, only) actor to star in a Worst Picture Razzie winner and Best Picture Oscar winner in the same year.

## Soundtrack

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Cocktail (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by

various artists

Released| August 2, 1988 (1988-08-02)
Genre|

* Pop
* rock

Length| 35:27
Label| Elektra
Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [21]

Cocktail soundtrackNo.| Title| Artist| Length

|
|
|

1.| "Wild Again"| Starship| 4:43
2.| "Powerful Stuff"| The Fabulous Thunderbirds| 4:48
3.| "Since When"| Robbie Nevil| 4:02
4.| "Don't Worry, Be Happy"| Bobby McFerrin| 4:48
5.| "Hippy Hippy Shake"| The Georgia Satellites| 1:45
6.| "Kokomo"| The Beach Boys| 3:34
7.| "Rave On!"| John Cougar Mellencamp| 3:13
8.| "All Shook Up"| Ry Cooder| 3:29
9.| "Oh, I Love You So"| Preston Smith| 2:42
10.| "Tutti Frutti"| Little Richard| 2:23

Additional tracks featured in the film include:

* "Addicted to Love" – Robert Palmer
* "Shelter of Your Love" – Jimmy Cliff
* "This Magic Moment" – Leroy Gibbons
* "When Will I Be Loved" – The Everly Brothers (uncredited)
* "That Hypnotizin' Boogie" - David Wilcox

Song featured in the UK trailer:

* “You Move Me” - Rick Astley

### Charts

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1988–1989 weekly chart performance for Cocktail | Chart (1988–1989)  | Peak
position

|

Australian Albums (ARIA)[22] | 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[23] | 3
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[24] | 1
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[25] | 22
European Albums (Music & Media)[26] | 7
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[27] | 7
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[28] | 4
Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)[29] | 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[30] | 1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[31] | 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[32] | 4
US Billboard 200[33] | 2
2013 weekly chart performance for Cocktail Chart (2013)  | Peak
position

|

UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC)[34] | 46
2016 weekly chart performance for Cocktail Chart (2016)  | Peak
position

|

US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] | 13
1988 year-end chart performance for Cocktail | Chart (1988)  | Position

|

Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[36] | 12
US Billboard 200[37] | 74
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[38] | 4
1989 year-end chart performance for Cocktail Chart (1989)  | Position

|

Australian Albums (ARIA)[39] | 19
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[40] | 26
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[41] | 31
European Albums (Music & Media)[42] | 56
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[43] | 70
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[44] | 20
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[45] | 27
US Billboard 200[46] | 32
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] | 2

### Certifications

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Certifications for Cocktail Region  | Certification | Certified units/sales

|
|

Australia (ARIA)[39] | 4× Platinum  | 280,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[48] | Diamond  | 1,000,000^
France (SNEP)[49] | Gold  | 100,000*
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[50] | Gold  | 10,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[51] | Platinum  | 15,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[52] | Gold  | 50,000^
Sweden (GLF)[53] | Gold  | 50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[54] | Gold  | 25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[55] | Gold  | 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[56] | 4× Platinum  | 4,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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## External links

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* Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
* Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008)
* Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

2010s|

* M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
* Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011)
* David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012)
* Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013)
* Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014)
* Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
* Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
* Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017)
* Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
* Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)

2020s|

* Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21)
* Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021)
* Andrew Dominik – Blonde (2022)
* Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

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