Cocktail

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.

About Cocktail

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 business student Brian Flanagan, 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 being overwhelmingly panned by critics, and winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the film was a huge box office success, grossing $171.5 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 1988.

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