After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
Cocktail has generally received negative reviews.
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Cocktail was released in 1988 and has generally received negative reviews.
Online reviewers have written 27 reviews, giving Cocktail (1988) an average rating of 39%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 65%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 34%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Cocktail a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 39%, Cocktail is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1988, which stands at 57%.
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