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Cocktail (VHS, 1995)

Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruse) is a young, fresh out of the Army New Yorker looking for a marketing job. After many rejections for lack of any college degree, he decides to go to college. Needing employment while going to school, he is given a job in a tavern run by Doug Couglin, bartender extrodinaire, who takes him in and teaches him the tools of the trade - with flair! Soon, Doug and Brian are famous as the two best 'performing' bartenders in the business, with a large following. Both guys are having the time of their lives sleeping with as many women as they want, but a fight over a woman drives Brian away. Desperately wanting to open his own place, "Cocktails n' Dreams" but not having the money to do so, he takes off to Jamaica, to a Club Med type of bar where the action is fast and the money is real good. He hopes to earn enough here to open his dream lounge in a couple of years. Here he meets Jordan Mooney, a beautiful young woman from New York. Jordan was also a talented up-and-coming artist. They have a wild fling and both fall in love, but he blows it when Doug shows up. Doug had just married a young, beautiful but sleazy, very wealthy woman and was having the time of his life being rich. They were on their honeymoon, in their sailing yacht. On a bet with Doug, Brian made a pass at a glamorous older and obviously wealthy woman from NYC who was there alone. He picked her up, but Jordan saw him. Now she knows that the is just another 'pretty-boy' gigolo chasing money. Embarrassed by her affection, she left and went home. Brian, knowing he blew it, goes back to New York with the older woman as her 'Boy-Toy'. It doesn't take long for this to become a source of personal humiliation for Brian, and he splits. By accident he runs into Jordan who is working as a waitress in a local cafe. He desperately tries to apologize, but she wants nothing to do with him. He soon finds out that she is pregnant with his child, and he tries everything to make her forgive him, but she just won't. One day he follows her and she enters a very snazzy building of very high-end residences. When he finds out where she went he knocks and finds out that her parents live there and not only are they are filthy rich, but Jordan is apparently an heiress. He had no idea she came from money, but she has seen gold-diggers before and doesn't believe him. Her father offers Brian a lot of money to just go away, but he tears up the check and tells him that he loves her. He really is in love with her. Once again, Brian and Doug cross paths. By now, Doug, with his big ideas and no formal business knowledge, has managed to blow through all of his wife's money. Having no courage to tell her that through high living and bad investments he has squandered her wealth, he takes the easy way out and kills himself. Brian now fully understands the scope of his mistakes. After full contrition and finally convincing her of his love, and refusing anything from her parents, Jordan marries Brian. He takes over his Uncle's neighborhood bar and transforms it into his dream "Cocktails n' Dreams". Brian finds out that Jordan is having twins!
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Cocktail

I am a fan of Tom Cruise. This is a good clean love story. I have been to Jamaica and loved the settings. Added this to my movie collection for my Grandchildren to watch in the future.

Cocktail, the movie - 1995 VHS format

Great movie from back when Tom was making classics. Had it before but lost it somehow and wanted to replace it. Very good!

Great product!

Good VHS in conditon. My favorite movie I watch whenever free. I watched this before and will keep it with all my VHS I have.