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  • 1985
  • R
  • Cinecom International Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1985
  • R
  • Cinecom International Films
  • 1 h 38 m

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...

Directed By: Dusan Makavejev

Written By: Frank Moorhouse, Denny Lawrence

  • 1985
  • R
  • Cinecom International Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1985
  • R
  • Cinecom International Films
  • 1 h 38 m

The Coca-Cola Kid

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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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...

Directed By: Dusan Makavejev

Written By: Frank Moorhouse, Denny Lawrence

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
58
36% Positive
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64% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
58
36% Positive
4 Reviews
64% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
A dippy, joyous meander of a movie, more than a little messy but abundantly rewarding.
By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW
75
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.
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75
The movie has so many other delights, though, that it's fun anyway. Maybe it wasn't exactly intended to be a love story.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
60
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.
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50
It claims to offer a new formula for comedy, but a lot of filmgoers will probably prefer the classic kind. [30 Aug 1985, p.N23]
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
40
As usual there are some incidental pleasures (among them a 'roo with its arm in a sling, and Scacchi continuing in her mission to spontaneously combust the male population of the planet). Against these, however, is 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.
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Production Company Cinema Enterprises, The Australian Film Commission, Grand Bay Films International Pty., Smart Egg Pictures
Release Date Jul 14, 1985
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating R
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Tagline Someone should have told this Yank not to take us all so seriously!
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Awards

Australian Film Institute
• 7 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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