MOVIE REVIEW

Cocktail / 1988

Name: Cocktail
Director: Roger Donaldson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1988
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.1

When he pours, he reigns.

6.1 / 10 (1,610 votes)

104 minutes

DIRECTOR Roger Donaldson

WRITERS Heywood Gould

CAST Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Ron Dean, Ellen Foley, Chris Owens, Louis Ferreira, James Eckhouse, Laurence Luckinbill, Paul Benedict, Robert Donley, Andrea Doven

PRODUCTION Interscope Communications, Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

Cocktail adalah sebuah Romance, Drama, Comedy yang dirilis pada tahun 1988. “When he pours, he reigns.” Film ini disutradarai oleh Roger Donaldson dan dibintangi oleh Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Kelly Lynch.

Cocktail menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, Cocktail menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, Cocktail adalah Romance yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 29, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

CinemaSerf 5/10

June 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 and cheekiness soon show he has a real skill for this job. The first half hour or...

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Wuchak 7/10

September 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 Cruise-led 80’s flick that starts energetic, amusing and shallow but, thankfully, fleshes out the characters for something deeper. It’s fun in a snappy way, yet hindered by a feeling of unreality in the first...

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