Cocktail vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.1/10 for Cocktail). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 44m. Cocktail is the older of the two (1988 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Cocktail
What We Wanted to Be| Cocktail | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.1/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Roger Donaldson | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Elisabeth Shue, James Eckhouse, Kelly Lynch, Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
Cocktail
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.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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