Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

This Day in History !!!!!

Coca-Cola was bottled and sold for the first time on this date back in 1894. 

Wikipedia.org Article for the Coca-Cola Company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company 

Wikipedia.org Article for the Coca-Cola Beverage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola

Why not watch one of our weirder picks for the year in legendary Yugoslavian film-maker, Dusan Makavejev's .....

The Coca-Cola Kid (1985).  

Hey!  We needed something for this day in history.  Have a Coke and a smile !!!!!!!!!!



Run Time:  98 mins
Genre:  Drama, Comedy
Format:  Widescreen Format, Color
Director:  Dusan Makavejev
Starring:  Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr and Chris Haywood

IMDB.com Entry for the Film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088931/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Wikipedia.org Article for the Film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Kid

Wikipedia.org Article for Eric Roberts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Roberts

Wikipedia.org Article for Greta Scacchi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Scacchi

Wikipedia.org Article for Bill Kerr:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kerr

Wikipedia.org Article for Director Dušan Makavejev:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Makavejev

Trailer for the Film on YouTube:


Corporate America is already kind of funny, but what happens if one of those corporate giants ends up in another country, say Australia.  Yugoslavian, now Serbian Director, Dusan Makavejev, gives us an interesting view of the world of Coca-Cola, as he adds in the ingredients of comedy and satire, along with Australian philosophy, into the soft drink equation.  Dusan is known as a giant in the Yugoslavian film industry, mostly because his films do tend to be sexually controversial and he has managed to anger some censorship bureaus around the world.  In the Coca-Cola Kid, Dusan gives us an idea of how foreign view-points interpret corporate America.  

Eric Roberts plays an eccentric and sometimes sexually confused business man, named Becker, who is sent to Coca-Cola Australia to help with market penetration.  He eventually learns of a valley that has an old man, who makes and markets his own soft drink and they decide to try and combine their resources to bring Coke to the valley.  Meanwhile, Becker also starts falling in love with his secretary, played by the beautiful Greta Scacchi, who seems to have a history of sorts to that same valley where the old man makes his soft drinks. - Phil

"Waltzing Matilda,' from 'The Coca Cola Kid' featuring Mic Conway on YouTube:


This film was intended to poke fun at the world of corporations, but Coca-Cola made them put up a disclaimer at the start of the film.  The film is also rated R for nudity and sex, because it does have that foreign-film feeling to it that tends to be a little bit too controversial in the States sometimes.  It is this weird combination of odd people, crazy businessmen, promiscuous women, cutting-edge sexuality and corporate satire that helps elevate the eccentricities of Roberts’s character and really makes you wonder ……. Is it real or is it satire?  That is the pay-off from the Coca-Cola Kid.  Trying to understand the lunacy of corporations and the head-in-the-sand customers that let them do the things they do. - Phil

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