Cocktail Page #9

Synopsis: After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan tries to get a marketing job in New York City. But without a college degree, this is not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that it's not easy but his new boss Douglas Coughlin teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian and Doug want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails and Dreams'. In order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney, a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York City, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older,
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Roger Donaldson
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
12
Rotten Tomatoes:
5%
R
Year:
1988
104 min
4,953 Views


- Come on. Let's go.

- Hold it. Just hold it!

- Jordan, Jordan, don't go.

- All right. All right. Okay. Okay.

If you walk out of this house right now,

just don't bother coming back.

- Dad, I'm going.

I love him and I'm going.

- You're not going anywhere.

Jordan! Stop her!

- Get off of me!

- Get her hands off of her.

She's pregnant!

You a**hole!

It didn't have to be this way,

you know?

You're on your own.

That's the only way I want it.

A toast. To the bride

and to my nephew.

All the happiness.

I've been lied to

- When will I be loved

- Right now, baby.

Yeah!

I've been turned down

I've been pushed around

When will I be loved

You realize we're both

completely insane.

Yes.

- You're probably going to want

to divorce me in three weeks.

- Probably.

No. You'll want to divorce me.

I'll be all fat and ugly.

- Just as long as you don't get too fat.

- I am going to be very fat.

- And you are going to love it.

- I've been cheated

Been mistreated

When will I be loved

- Come on, Brian! Give us a poem!

- Yeah, a poem!

- We want a poem!

- A poem?

- Let's hear one, Brian!

A poem!

- A poem?

- A poem. We want a poem.

- All right, a poem. A poem.

- We want a poem! We want a poem!

All right!

- Okay, a poem.

- Yeah, a poem.

Well, this poem

is entitled...

"Flanagan's Advice

to His Unborn Child."

Now...

if Jordan gives birth

to a fine Irish son...

there'll be Cocktails & Dreams

for him one day to run.

- A business that shall yield

a financial windfall...

- It better!

- To be franchised in every

suburban shopping mall.

- A dynasty!

You're founding a dynasty!

Now...

if a daughter arrives

to bless our clan...

I guess the sh*t will

certainly hit the fan.

But this

I shall promise to thee...

I'll never let her

marry a guy like me.

But still, if our child...

is the naughtiest of girls

or the wildest of young men...

I swear I'll be

the best dad I can.

And never, ever

get spooked again.

- Bet I can still spook you.

- No way.

Twins?

Twins?

- Twins!

- Yeah!

- Drinks are on the house!

- No! No!

The bar is open!

In love, love, love

Like I've never been

In love, love, love

Here I go again

Heart aches, take it slow

You ain't got far to go

And if you travel smooth

love be a pleasure cruise

Oh, I love you so

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

Oh, I love you so

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

Took a bus, took a plane

took a railroad train

Just to get on back

To that little girl I love

standing in the back

We love, love, love

Right there in the back

We love, love, love

on the railroad track

Heart aches, take it slow

You ain't got far to go

And if you travel smooth

love be a pleasure cruise

Oh, I love you so

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

Oh, I love you so

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

Oh, I love you so

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

I guess, I guess

I guess you know

A diamond sun cuts down

A frozen winter sky

As the world and I go screaming

Into the phantom night

It doesn't matter where it leads

I got nowhere left to go

If there's any chance at all

It's somewhere down this road

To be wild again

No one's child again

Yeah, I wanna live

every minute so hard

That I wear it thin

I wanna find the edge

Risk it all to win

I wanna see those eyes

in the mirror

Full of fire again

I wanna be wild again

Wild again

There has to be a crossroad

A place to draw the line

And it comes down

to the question

What is theirs

and what is mine

Wild again

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Heywood Gould

Heywood Gould is an American screenwriter, journalist, novelist and film director. He has penned screenplays for such films as Rolling Thunder, The Boys from Brazil, Fort Apache the Bronx, Streets of Gold, Cocktail and directed such films as One Good Cop, Trial by Jury, Mistrial and Double Bang. more…

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