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Measuring cult classification purely against the mainstream, it’s hard to make Roger Donaldson’s 1988 Tom Cruise vehicle Cocktail, fit in either camp. With enormous box office revenue it obviously enjoyed mainstream appeal, but it was also universally panned. The bad reviews have nothing to do with it being conventionally morally abhorrent, as many cult films could be considered. But scholarship on ‘objectionable’ films is constantly becoming more accepted; the next frontier of the…
