IMDb plot summary: A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
Directed by Roger Donaldson. Starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, and Lisa Banes.
I'm not sure what this movie is actually *about*. Pursuing your dreams? Settling down? Trying to be about both but then kind of half-heartedly mashing it together into an abrupt ending where nobody appears to be on any kind of actual arc? Yeah, probably that one. Tom Cruise is a strange choice for the lead, too. This character is weird and mysterious in his motivation, but I don't think he's *supposed* to be that way, I feel like there are things that were written poorly and then got even more lost in translation in the hands of the wrong actor. I told one person I was watching this and they made a comment about Tom Cruise flipping bottles and glasses around and, yeah, that's basically the height of it. I think it wants to be more but doesn't know what "more" it actually wants to be.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Cocktail < Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Cocktail > The Cocoanuts
Cocktail > Vera Drake
Cocktail > Ray
Cocktail < The French Connection
Cocktail > Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Cocktail > Harold and Maude
Cocktail < Green Lantern
Cocktail > Play It Again, Sam
Cocktail > Nicholas Nickleby
Cocktail < Bright Young Things
Final spot: #2338 out of 2974.
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