![]() Quickly, they elevate their friendship into a wild sexual relationship. As their popularity rises, Brian becomes the focus of attention from a sultry brunette named Coral (Gina Gershon). Doug intends to call his bar "Cocktails & Dreams".Įventually, Brian and Doug's bar-tending act becomes popular and they end up working at a trendy nightclub catering to New York City's wealthy and elite, the type of establishment where yuppies spout poetry from the top of the rafters for all patrons to hear. While Brian has high personal aspirations, Doug is leery of the notion of starting their own bar together. ![]() An example of his expert advice, which actually turns out to be quite poignant, is "Coughlin's Law: Drink or be gone!" Other pearls include: "Bury the dead, they stink up the joint." and "Anything else is always something better." His advice takes a familiar structure as he usually begins most of them with "Coughlin's Law". Brian and Doug soon become very close Doug readily assumes a mentor role over the young and naive Brian, and rains advice and opinions down upon him. Over time, he learns the tricks of the trade including flairing from his boss/mentor Doug Coughlin ( Bryan Brown). At first, Brian is a terrible bartender, revealed in a montage of his screw ups. So completely and utterly dated (in a bad way) and serves no purpose other than a history lesson on 80's social gatherings and what people thought was cool employment at the time.Ī time when Cruise's ego was sky high alongside his over acting, mind you what's new.After leaving the United States Army and moving to New York City, Brian Flanagan ( Tom Cruise) gets a part-time job as a bartender at night while studying for a business degree (which he needs to get a job in marketing). In places this film is very awkward to watch, bordering on embarrassing. Add to that the constant flow of hyped over acting and mugging by Cruise.oh god it makes you wanna vomit in your Singapore Sling!.Ī film for the ladies I think as the only things that interested me was a few female arse shots and the thought of what life would be like as a sex toyboy for a rich middle aged business woman (I would of stuck it out). Brown is just totally uncool and annoying whilst Shue is a wet fish. Whilst Shue was never very attractive in my book and hardly sells her character, so dreadfully vanilla and dull!! geez!!. Aussie Bryan Brown who never really made much of a splash in Hollywood is a bizarre choice. The cast is also another odd cocktail of choice. The bar scenes are really quite crap looking back, I remember how people thought this stuff was sooooo cool (laugh out loud!). Watching Cruise pose and strut around with his wide toothy grin and hair that can't decide to be straight or curly is somewhat painful at times. Yet more breakup, death of a friend and eventual makeup leading to the obvious happy ending.Ī veritable rollercoaster of a plot which is totally uninteresting and rather cringeworthy. More backstabbing follows as we proceed to more heartbreak and the involvement with older rich women, much more fun then. From there we get cheating, backstabbing and escapism to Jamaica where a soppy love story breaks out. Kicks off as a loose dumb story about a young guy who learns to be a bartender and throws bottles around awful looking swanky yuppie/suit type bars. Well the plot in this ever so 80's flick is a cocktail of drama in itself!. The image.behind a slick neon lit bar, fast money and easy sex, who would say no?. ![]() He made us all wanna join the military so we could play with fighter jets and have a cool nickname, play/hustle nine-ball for a living, be a NASCAR driver.but at one point he also made all men wanna become bartenders. What has Mr Cruise done to blokes over the years huh.
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