Tom Cruise turned down the role he was offered in Cocktail.
Cocktail (1988 film) . The film stars Tom Cruise , Bryan Brown , and Elisabeth Shue . Tom Cruise . One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood , Cruise starred in several more successful films in the 1980s , including the dramas The Color of Money ( 1986 ) , Cocktail ( 1988 ) , Rain Man ( 1988 ) , and Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 ) .