Season 2 · Episode 6 ·
Cocktail
The One Where Tom Cruise Flips a Lot of Bottles
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 9%
- Budget
- $20 million
- Box office
- $171.5 million
Rotten Tomatoes score via Wikidata. Budget and box office via TMDB.
About the episode
This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron shake up Cocktail (1988), the Tom Cruise 80s movie that critics savaged with a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes despite making $170 million at the box office. The romance never quite convinces, the tonal swings are abrupt, and yes, the novel it's based on is probably better. But it may also be the best worst movie they've watched yet.
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About the movie
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.
- Director
- Roger Donaldson
- Starring
- Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, Comedy
Movie details via TMDB.
