Movie
Cocktail
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1988-07-29
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Interscope Communications, Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan
- Bryan Brown as Douglas "Doug" Coughlin
- Elisabeth Shue as Jordan Mooney
- Lisa Banes as Bonnie
- Kelly Lynch as Kerry Coughlin
- Gina Gershon as Coral
- Ron Dean as Uncle Pat
- Ellen Foley as Eleanor
- Chris Owens as Soldier
- Louis Ferreira as Soldier
- James Eckhouse as Tourist
- Laurence Luckinbill as Richard Mooney
Crew
- Roger Donaldson - Director
- Heywood Gould - Screenplay
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