It was this iconic movie that influenced my ideas in a few ways. Yes I created Cocktails and Art as a play on the words Cocktails and Dreams from the movie "Cocktail". Tom Cruise who stars in Cocktail plays a young business student Brian Flanagan an Irish American descendent who works a cocktail bar gig to fund himself through university. He is mentored and befriended by the hapless social climber Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown), who coins a phrase "Coughlins Law".