Overview:
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.Status: | Released (1988-07-29) |
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Awards: | 5 wins & 6 nominations |
BoxOffice: | $78,222,753 |
Screen: | Heywood Gould |
Productions: | Interscope Communications, Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | Português, Español, English |
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Casts
- 500: Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan
- 29092: Bryan Brown - Douglas "Doug" Coughlin
- 1951: Elisabeth Shue - Jordan Mooney
- 52878: Lisa Banes - Bonnie
- 6473: Kelly Lynch - Kerry Coughlin
- 11150: Gina Gershon - Coral
- 57597: Ron Dean - Uncle Pat
Crews
- 21370: Roger Donaldson - Director - Directing
- 53387: Heywood Gould - Screenplay - Writing
- 18389: Robert W. Cort - Producer - Production
- 9196: Ted Field - Producer - Production
- 28156: J. Peter Robinson - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 4501: Dean Semler - Director of Photography - Camera
- 7231: Neil Travis - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
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There was something about Tom Cruise in this film that shows him at his most engaging and fun. His character "Brian" wants to get on in life - but at every turn his limited of education gets in the way. Despondent, he heads to a bar where he encounters "Doug" (Bryan Brown) and next t ....
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**_Fun 80’s flick starts shallow, gets deeper_** Bent on financial success, a young ex-soldier (Tom Cruise) becomes an expert bartender in Manhattan while attending college in order to make it on Wall Street. Then a dream surfaces to establish a nightclub in Jamaica. Bryan Brown p ....
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