Cocktail 1988 123movies

Watch: Cocktail 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Intent on becoming a successful businessman, and even a millionaire, the ex-military man, Brian Flanagan, waits for his big break while serving drinks at a New York City tavern, and studying for his degree. However, when the charismatic cynic and veteran bartender, Doug Coughlin, becomes the ambitious Brian’s sage mentor, their chemistry, combined with the flamboyant tricks behind the bar, will soon yield fame and money until they decide to split ways. Now, as Flanagan struggles to raise money in Jamaica to open his dream bar someday, he falls hard for the striving waitress, Jordan Mooney, while a wealthy fashion executive wants to take him back to Manhattan to live with her. Is there a future between Brian and Jordan?.
Plot: After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor’s cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
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Ratings:

	5.9/10 Votes: 86,625
	9% | RottenTomatoes
	12/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1194 Popularity: 17.35 | TMDB

Reviews:

To be enjoyed as a lightweight summer movie
A classic Cruise film, where Cruise is still an actor more than the archetypal movie star. Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a greedy youngster just back from the Army, eager to make big money fast in Manhattan. He cannot get a job in advertising or finance for lack of education and he ends up working in a fancy bar. I do not understand why savvy bartender Doug (Brown) would give the job to a guy who does not know how to make a cocktail, but this is one of those stupid plot devices one should not focus on.

Doug and Brian make a dynamic bar-tending duo, very popular with customers, but their professional idyll is shattered by a femme fatale, for no other reason than to move the plot forward.

Three years later we find Brian bar-tending in Jamaica, saving money to open his own bar, when Doug reappears with his rich bride. How and why Doug found Brian is another question better left unanswered. Brian is busy romancing Jordan, a “poor” artist who happens to be able to afford an exclusive cottage and extended Caribbean holidays (again, better left unanswered).

Doug challenges Brian to seduce a rich woman to follow in his footsteps of kept man and cocky Brian obliges. Unfortunately Jordan sees him and is heartbroken. We’re supposed to believe that a week of happy frolicking on the beach adds up to a great love story – or maybe they frolicked way longer, but again, how long was Jordan’s holiday?

The third act takes place in New York, where Jordan ran back and Brian followed with rich lover Bonnie. There the movie looses steam, heading to an extremely predictable ending.

One good point of the plot is to show that people can enjoy a good life working a job they love. One bad point is that the cybernetic revolution taking place at the time is completing ignored as a source of wealth. The Brians of the time still followed the credo of “greed is good” of the finance world, while the real revolution took place elsewhere

A great soundtrack adds a lot to the plot, which is pretty flawed and filled with holes. Nowadays, it is fashionable to revile the 80s as the decade of greed, shoulders pads and awful haircuts. However, those who lived through it, probably had fun and Cocktail is a classic summer movie, to be enjoyed without reflecting too much – even if only one third actually takes place in summery locations.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 171504781
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Roger Donaldson
Writer Heywood Gould
Actors Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Metrocolor, Culver City (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 2,836 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)