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- It’S Based on A True Story
- Some Legendary 80s Actresses Auditioned to Be in The Film
- The Story Completely Changed Once Cruise Was on Board
- Cruise and Brown Had Bartending Training For The Film
- Yes, They Used Real Bottles
- Critics Hated The Film
- Cruise Fought with His Wife Off-Set
- Cruise Got Seriously Ill While Shooting in Jamaica
- The Scene with Gina Gershon Being Tickled Off The Bed Wasn’T Planned
- Even Cocktail’s Writer Doesn’T Like The Film
Cocktail is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Heywood Gould which was published in 1984. Gould had actually worked as a bartender in New York to support his writing career. He has been quoted as saying that he ‘met a lot of interesting people behind the bar and very rarely was it someone who started out wanting to be a bartender’. ‘They all...
Jennifer Grey, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, and Daryl Hannah all either sought or were considered for the role of Jordan, romantic interest to Tom Cruise’s cocky bartender. The part ultimately eventually went to Elizabeth Shue, then best known for her roles in The Karate Kid and Adventures in Babysitting. Shue was often cast as ‘the girl next door’ cha...
Actor Bryan Brown said that the script ‘was one of the very best screenplays I had ever read. Very dark, about the cult of celebrity and everything about it.’ He went on to say that ‘Tom Cruise is a very sweet man, he was then and still is, but when he came in, the movie had to change.’ ‘The studio made the changes to protect the star and it became...
To prepare them for the film, LA bartender John Bandy trained Cruise and Brown in some impressive bottle-flipping routines. Author Heywood Gould also took Cruise and Brown to his friend’s bar to show them some of the tricks. As previously mentioned, John Bandy also helped them perfect their flair. Bandy revealed that ‘both Tom and Bryan were very c...
You might think it would be easier (and less messy) to just use plastic glasses. However, the producers were after a sense of authenticity. Cruise and Brown used real bottles on set, even when filming the sometimes intricate throwing routines. And yes, given the actors were throwing so much real glass around, they did accidentally wind up breaking ...
Cocktail received mainly negative reviews from critics, and won 2 Golden Raspberry Awards, for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Cocktail ‘an upscale, utterly brainless variation on those efficient old B-movies of the 1930s and 40s.’ Similarly, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times claimed that ‘the more ...
At the time of making Cocktail, Tom Cruise was only one year into his first marriage to Someone to Watch Over Me actress Mimi Rogers (who notoriously introduced Cruise to Scientology). However, the couple had an infamously turbulent relationship and were already at loggerheads. It was reported that Cruise and Rogers were arguing constantly when he ...
Tom Cruise got sick when filming in Jamaica, due to the exterior shots being filmed outside in the cold. Whilst he and Elisabeth Shue were shooting a love scene at a jungle waterfall, his condition became apparent. He has said the experience was ‘not quite as romantic as it looks… It was more like ‘Jesus, let’s get this shot and get out of here,’ h...
The scene in which Coral, played by Gina Gershon, falls off the bed with Cruise’s Brian, wasn’t planned. Cruise knew that Gershon was ticklish and it led to them falling off of the bed, a take that made it into the finished film. It seems the incident didn’t put Gershon off her acting career, though. ‘One of my first gigs, a movie called Cocktail, ...
Heywood Gould, wrote the book the film was based on as well as the screenplay. He has said ‘I was not happy with the final product. It got so savaged by the critics.’ He went on to say that ‘I was accused of betraying my own work, which is stupid.’ ‘So I was pretty devastated. I literally couldn’t get out of bed for a day,’ he explained. “The good ...
Jul 29, 1988 · Cocktail: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes. A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Roger Donaldson
- 1988-07-29
Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson from a screenplay by Heywood Gould, and based on Gould's book of the same name. It stars Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue.
Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American actress and singer. She has starred in such films as Cocktail (1988), Red Heat (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), P.S.
Jan 10, 2018 · 10. Gina Gershon was incredibly ticklish. Tom Cruise knew this and wouldn’t relent, which led to them falling off of the bed, which is in turn the take that was used. 9. Flair bartending is a...
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