I saw this movie in 1988 in US and for the first time i came across an actor who was so likeable on screen. quite short! ( huh!) but very charming and intelligent. I could see this movie again too.. the story of Cocktail goes like this....
After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan ( Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin (actor: Bryan Brown ) teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian and Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney ( very indianish look..acted by Elisabeth Shue)...a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a challenge from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort... Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together ... Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together? It is a very different comedy/ romance story....if you see it you will enjoy it for sure..
Tom Cruise has starred in many successful movies like Top Gun, Rain Man, Mission: Impossible among many others. I recollect seeing him in 'Endless love' with brooke shields ...he was looking so young at that time...saw in bombay during college days..
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