The Coca Cola Kid

The Coca Cola Kid (1985)

  • 44% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 35% of users liked it
    (1,290 ratings)

The ugly American bullying his way through a foreign country was a subject for comedy in several films of the 1980s, most notably Bill Forsyth's Local Hero and this film from exiled Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev. Eric Roberts plays Becker, an aggressive marketing executive for the Coca-Cola… More

R, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
Dusan Makavejev
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Jul 14, 1985 Wide
On DVD
Apr 16, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, 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.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    The film's cutting edge is never very keen.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    An oddball comedy that is particularly well-timed to coincide with the current Coke marketing circus.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    [A] mild, uneven social satire.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    The satire is peculiarly fizzless

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  • AJ V


    A strange, quirky, yet predictable comedy, romance, adventure in Australia. I half like it and half hate it, so it's okay.

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