Movie
1988
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.
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Tom Cruise is among the last true Hollywood stars, remnant of the era when great actors turned films into hits whether those films deserved it or not. In the case of *Cocktail*, 1988 drama directed by Roger Donaldson, it was the latter. Film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Heywood Gould, which had been inspired by author’s attempts to support his fledgling writing career by working as bartender. Prota…More
