The Coca-Cola Kid

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The Coca-Cola Kid

R

1985

1h 34m

Comedy

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Becker (Eric Roberts) is an American marketing expert working for the Coca-Cola Company. He is extremely dedicated to his work and travels the world pushing the product on as many places as he can. When he realizes that there is a part of Australia where absolutely nobody buys Coke, he vows to change that. But then he meets not only McDowell (Bill Kerr), a local entrepreneur who manufactures his own soda, but McDowell's beautiful daughter, Terri (Greta Scacchi), and everything changes.

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Variety

Yhe mix of earthy symbolism, offbeat eroticism, the picaresque and the rough-and-tumble social, rather unpolitical satire now seems poured from a bottle that has been left uncapped overnight.

Nov 7, 2007

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Time Out

A plot that goes AWOL in the interests of true love, and Roberts, as the kid from Coke, who is well on his way to becoming the world's worst actor.

Jun 24, 2006

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

The film's cutting edge is never very keen.

Rated: 2.5/5

May 20, 2003

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Peter Canavese

Celluloid Dreams

An unusual, audacious and fitfully witty satire with a bit of a literary texture to it. Thanks to Fun City Editions for its world-wide blu-ray premiere and this comprehensive special edition.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 30, 2022

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

The satire is peculiarly fizzless

Aug 30, 2009

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TV Guide

The film that has spread the director's political message to the widest audience.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 7, 2007

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Larry H

An endearing comedy that still holds up. The time period is well preserved in Australia mid 80s.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/28/23

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bill t

A bit of a cultish-wanna-be movie, too in love at how smart it is. A coca cola rep decides to fight for the last Australian Territory that doesn't have the wonder drink. From there, it really just goes everywhere. A mess.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Pretty funny, Eric Roberts somewhat out of his element but just makes the delivery.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Excellent movie. Greta Scacchi is charming and wonderful. Eric Roberts is great. This is a funny and excellent movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

Was an okay flick, about a cocky American trying to get more sales from Coke in Australia. Roberts kind of grows on you after awhile and Scacchi is just flat out adorable, and the girl playing her little daughter steals every scene she is in by being even more adorable. It was interesting to see how Coke tries to go in and push it's product to every single place, but the movie didn't offer up much more in plot and was kind of a slow film to watch. And usually I wouldn't complain about seeing the Lovely Greta Scacchi naked a ton, but her two scenes are really all that made this film R rated. And they didn't move the story on, so just from a rantings stand point, they could have cut that stuff and got a lesser rating.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Why make a movie that jerks off a product that doesn't even SPONSOR said movie?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Synopsis

Becker (Eric Roberts) is an American marketing expert working for the Coca-Cola Company. He is extremely dedicated to his work and travels the world pushing the product on as many places as he can. When he realizes that there is a part of Australia where absolutely nobody buys Coke, he vows to change that. But then he meets not only McDowell (Bill Kerr), a local entrepreneur who manufactures his own soda, but McDowell's beautiful daughter, Terri (Greta Scacchi), and everything changes.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Producer: David Roe, Sylvie Le Clezio
Production Co: Grand Bay Films International Pty., Smart Egg Pictures, Cinema Enterprises, The Australian Film Commission
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 4, 2019
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Surround

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