Haven’t we all been there? We don’t want to settle just yet. He immediately reaches out to his “network” – his Uncle Pat, who is full of words of wisdom and even says he’ll get him into a job that Flanagan feels he’s better than. He’s determined and has clearly stated goals to “make a million.” He tells a young kid sitting next to him, “Someday we’re going to own that town.” While on this seemingly long trek, he is consuming a book entitled “How to Turn Your Idea Into a Million Dollars.” They come up around the bend and we see the glorious World Trade Center. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. The film opens as Brian Flanagan (a young Tom Cruise, post- “Top Gun” and “The Color of Money”), fresh out of the military, hitches a ride on a bus heading to New York City. Valuable lessons that we can apply in our own lives. I often ask bartenders if they’ve seen the film, even finding an establishment once with a drink called “Coughlin’s Law” where I had to educate the staff on this gem.Ī great sales movie requires a few things: The protagonist, ambitious and clearly ready to take over the world, embarking on a journey to greatness with stumbles and hard work upon the way. For several reasons.įor many, if they have seen it at all, “Cocktail” exists as that silly, Tom Cruise flair bartending flick from the 80’s – with an 80’s soundtrack to boot. Not many would immediately think of 1988 multiple Raspberry award-winning film “Cocktail” – but I do. When you think about great sales movies, the obvious choices like “Wall Street,” “Wolf of Wall Street,” “Boiler Room” and the like are typically the first to come up.
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