The Coca-Cola Kid

1985

Comedy / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 47% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 3669 3.7K

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Plot 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 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.

Director

Dusan Makavejev Photo
Dusan Makavejev

Top cast

Eric Roberts Photo
Eric Roberts as Becker
Greta Scacchi Photo
Greta Scacchi as Terri
Angelo D'Angelo Photo
Angelo D'Angelo as Projectionist
David Argue Photo
David Argue as Newspaper Vendor
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900.73 MB
1280*692
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 3
1.81 GB
1920*1038
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BobbySandhu-01 5 / 10

That Aussie Cola song...

It's... strange. Gets almost surreal in the end. But I tell you what, that aussie Coca- Cola song is catchy as hell.Moments for me in the film - Mother and daughter showering together - I don't think I have seen anything like that anywhere. I don't think you can even shoot something like that nowadays.McDowel shooting the American kid while the jungle noises intensify.The weird train-trucks at McDowel factory.Landing of the crop duster on an outback road.And of course the Aussie Coca-Cola song.I must mention that I have not had a soft drink in the last 10 years or so and no one in family does either.
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Reviewed by wes-connors 6 / 10

Things Go Better with Coke

Jetting to Australia on a business trip, Coca-Cola marketing expert Eric Roberts (as A. Becker) has trouble finding an American newspaper and tries to fend off advances from sexy secretary Greta Scacchi (as Terri). She wants to have sex with Mr. Roberts desperately - and won't take "no" for an answer. His mind is more on how to get her tenacious father, eccentric cola producer Bill Kerr (as T. George McDowell), to realize "Coke is it!" The locals have been strangely alienated from America's favorite soft drink. Roberts is famous for tripling Coke intake, but the small Australian community doesn't partake...

Dusan Makavejev directs this stylish, but disconnected satire. It seems off-track by the time Roberts attends a gender-bending outing; possibly, this is Ms. Scacchi further testing his sexual availability. She and scene-stealing little Rebecca Smart (as Rebecca aka "DMZ") have a show-stopping nude shower scene; maybe this is to be taken as the pause that refreshes. David Slingsby does well as a fawning waiter who mistakes Roberts for a CIA agent. The original power pop Coca-Cola jingle written by Tim Finn (of Split Enz) is excellent. Absurdity is the rule of thumb, and Roberts' mannequin-like performance fits.

****** The Coca-Cola Kid (5/85) Dusan Makavejev ~ Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, David Slingsby

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