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Movie Description Two bartenders at a busy Manhattan watering hole dream of someday owning their own bars. Their present lives consist of elaborate drink-mixing performances and sleeping with many of the female customers, until a fight over a woman causes the younger bartender to flee to Jamaica.
In Jamaica he finds true love with a vacationing waitress, but blows it when his materialist instincts get the better of him and he takes up with a wealthy, older, New York fashion designer. She brings him back to the city, where he lives as a kept man for a time, but realizing that love will make him happier than money, he seeks out the waitress, and tries to win her back.
Film Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1 Audio: Stereo - English Additional Release Material: Trailers Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
Shot on location in New York City, New Jersey, Toronto, and Port Antonia, Jamaica, in Metrocolor.
Film had an estimated budget of $17 million.
Tom Cruise studied the flashy bartender moves he used in the film from several employees of T.G.I. Friday restaurants. He was subsequently called to give a sworn statement (in June of 1994) in a sexual-harassment case against two of the chain's managers.
Industry Reviews "...COCKTAIL's a cinematic ice-cream cone: sweet and sticky but vaguely cool..." Total Film - Ceri Thomas (07/01/2000)
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