YMMV / Cocktail

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• Adaptation Displacement: Based on a novel that seems to be largely forgotten today.
• Awesome Music: While the film as a whole was considered by critics to be one of the most sour films of the 1980's (it was ironically released the same year as the masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit, another Touchstone film), the soundtrack had some good tracks, including featuring the debut of The Beach Boys' "Kokomo".
• Critic-Proof: The film earned overwhelmingly negative reviews and won the Worst Picture Razzie of 1988, but was a huge financial success, ranking as the eighth highest grossing film of the year, grossing $171.5 million worldwide, nearly nine times its $20 million budget. Although to be fair, it's Razzie victory was likely not because of the film's quality, but rather, because Tom Cruise was also starring in Rain Man, which was nominated for (and later won) the Oscar for Best Picture that year.
• Designated Villain: Jordan's father is a villain in the latter half of the film purely because he won't let Brian and Jordan get back together. Brian being the same man who despite falling in love with Jordan immediately cheated on her with an older woman, and who didn't exactly have a positive reaction to the news that Jordan was pregnant with his child. Even though Mr. Mooney ended up disowning Jordan when she took Brian back, considering Brian's track record to that point his condemnation and derision of Brian was perfectly justified. This did not go unnoticed in MAD's satire "Crock Tale".
• Ho Yay: Brian and Doug's relationship is more of a driving force in the plot than the love story - by the end, Doug even says that Brian is the only person he's ever cared about. And his suicide note starts off "My Dearest Brian..."
• Values Dissonance: To modern eyes, Brian's persistent pursuit of Jordan despite repeatedly being turned down, to the point that he forces himself into her apartment to confront her yet again, can come across as stalker behavior.

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