The Coca-Cola Kid

Name: The Coca-Cola Kid
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: July 14, 1985
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Slingsby, Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi

1985

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Roadshow Film Distributors | Release Date: July 14, 1985 | R

Starring: Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Slingsby, Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Kris McQuade, Max Gillies, Paul Chubb, Tim Finn, Tony Barry

Summary: An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of aAn eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.… Expand

Director: Dusan Makavejev

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Sheila Benson

A dippy, joyous meander of a movie, more than a little messy but abundantly rewarding. Read full review

Alan G. Artner

It ambles along gracefully, picking up points for subtle detail; but its conventions belong to light comedy, and they overwhelm most of the complexities the director has devised. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The movie has so many other delights, though, that it's fun anyway. Maybe it wasn't exactly intended to be a love story. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This is far from Makavejev's finest work (WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM and SWEET MOVIE are much more challenging), but it is the film that has spread the director's political message to the widest audience. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The 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. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Makavejev's ripping political/scatological wit isn't much in evidence, and the long middle section—involving Roberts's efforts to close down independent bottler Bill Kerr—is soggy and too familiar, but the film lives in a hundred different eccentric details and niceties of execution. Read full review

Megan Rosenfeld

The Coca-Cola Kid starts out as a lively satire of American business, posing a young Harvard MBA as a pin-striped cowboy attempting to claim a piece of the Australian outback for Coca-Cola. But Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev, like a ham-handed juggler in a high wind, thwarts his promising idea by tossing up a jumble of plot detours and subplots that never come down. [30 Aug 1985, p.B1]

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