the coca-cola kid

Director: dusan makavejev

Actor: eric roberts,greta scacchi,bill kerr,chris haywood

Data Published: Sun Jul 14 1985

Genres: Comedy,Drama

Key Words: coca cola,mother daughter relationship,australia,american abroad,land baron

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088931/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Kid

Description: The Coca-Cola Kid is a movie starring Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, and Bill Kerr. Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where...

Plot: Becker, a hotshot American marketing executive (played by Roberts) from The Coca-Cola Company visits their Australian operations and tries to figure out why a tiny corner of Australia (the fictional town of Anderson Valley) has so far resisted all of Coke's products. He literally bumps into the very pretty secretary (played by Scacchi) who is assigned to help him. Eventually Becker discovers that a local producer of soft drinks run by an old eccentric has been successfully fending off the American brand name products. The executive vows an all out marketing war with the eccentric but eventually comes to reconsider his role as a cog in Coca-Cola's giant corporate machinery. Along the way there are humorous subplots involving the office manager's violent ex-husband, Becker's attempt to find the 'Australian sound', and an odd waiter who is under the mistaken belief that Becker is a secret agent.