The Coca-Cola Kid
“A movie felt never so refreshing!”
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.
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Cast
41 people
Eric Roberts
Becker
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The Odyssey
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Greta Scacchi
Terri
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The Odyssey
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Bill Kerr
T. George McDowell
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Gallipoli
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Chris Haywood
Kim
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Sleeping Beauty
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Kris McQuade
Juliana
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Deadloch
Cargo
Max Gillies
Frank Hunter
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The Cars That Ate Paris
Tony Barry
Bushman
Known for
Faraway Downs
Harrow
Paul Chubb
Fred
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Bodyline
Stark
David Slingsby
Waiter
Known for
Mad Max 2
Sahara
Colleen Clifford
Mrs. Haversham / DMZ
Also in
Frauds
Careful, He Might Hear You
Tim Finn
Phillip
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Woman in the Moon
Predicament
Esben Storm
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Round the Twist
Pandemonium
Dušan Makavejev Director · Frank Moorhouse Screenplay William Motzing Composer
Worldwide gross $36K · Budget $3M · United States release July 14, 1985
Box office
Budget
$3,000,000
Worldwide gross
$36,365
Production
Grand Bay Films International Pty.
Production
Australian Film Commission
Production
Cinema Enterprises
Production
Australia
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
France · May 1, 1985
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
United States · July 14, 1985
Limited theatrical
Australia
August 29, 1985 · Theatrical
Germany
April 3, 1986 · Theatrical · prokino
Russia
December 16, 1989 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Dusan Makaveev (Moscow)
Sweden
September 27, 1985 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
July 19, 1985 · Theatrical
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