Cocktail

Name: Cocktail
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1937-10-10
Rating: 6.5

Comedy

🍅11%

🍅

11%

Tomatometer

🍿

58%

Popcornmeter

6.5

TMDB

Storyline

According to several old writings, Cocktail means something like mixed - and mixed is probably what you could call "Dana's" first revue production. It is a mix of everything that was good and better in the summer's two big revue successes, and as an extra little splash of fruit juice at the bottom of the shaker, a single thing has been taken from "Circus Revue".

Details

DirectorEmanuel Gregers

ReleasedOct 10, 1937

StatusReleased

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

2 fresh · 5 rotten

Critics consensus

“There are no surprises in Cocktail , a shallow, dramatically inert romance that squanders Tom Cruise's talents in what amounts to a naive barkeep's banal fantasy.”

11% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Peter Travers

RTPeople MagazineFeb 26, 2019

As if realizing that his star hasn't smiled for 15 minutes, Donaldson tacks on a goody-goody ending that would shame the Care Bears. How to sum up what went wrong? Cruise has a line in the movie: "Flat beer from rusty pipes."

Richard Corliss

RTTIME MagazineMay 21, 2013

Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.

Sheila Benson

RTLos Angeles TimesMay 21, 2013

The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money.

Eddie Harrison

RTfilm-authority.comMar 19, 2026

...the unquestioning attitude of the film to the central character's arrested development in terms of women is less than impressive…