

Cocktail
When he pours, he reigns.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $20M
- Box office
- $171.5M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- jamaica
- night life
- bartender
- ambition
- rags to riches
- cocktail
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR29 Jul 1988
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1520 Jan 1989
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM1 Dec 1988
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1429 Jul 1988
FranceFR
- Theatrical168 Feb 1989
- PhysicalVHS12 Dec 1990
- PhysicalDVD22 Jan 2003
- PhysicalBlu-Ray15 May 2013
- Digital / OTTDisney+23 Feb 2021
- TVTF1 Séries Films2 Mar 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1612 Jan 1989
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1620 Jan 1989
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1610 Aug 1989
IrelandIE
- Theatrical153 Feb 1989
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT8 Jan 1989
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+11 Mar 1989
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical62 Feb 1989
- TV6V830 Jan 2002
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Cocktail was released on 29 July 1988.
Audience reviews
2- C5/10
CinemaSerf
6/9/2022
There was something about Tom Cruise in this film that shows him at his most engaging and fun. His character "Brian" wants to get on in life - but at every turn his limited of education gets in the way. Despondent, he heads to a bar where he encounters "Doug" (Bryan Brown) and next thing we know, he is a cocktail barman. A bit slow to start off with, but soon he has the clientele eating out of his hand as his charm a…
- W7/10
Wuchak
9/10/2023
**_Fun 80’s flick starts shallow, gets deeper_** Bent on financial success, a young ex-soldier (Tom Cruise) becomes an expert bartender in Manhattan while attending college in order to make it on Wall Street. Then a dream surfaces to establish a nightclub in Jamaica. Bryan Brown plays his cynical mentor while Elisabeth Shue and Lisa Banes are on hand as romantic interests. “Cocktail” (1988) is an entertaining C…
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