Rotten Tomatoes gives The Coca-Cola Kid a rating of 47% from 17 reviews.

The Coca-Cola Kid was shot on location in Sydney–various city landmarks can be seen briefly throughout the film.

Denny Lawrence came on board the film as a consultant.

Production of the movie was difficult in part because of Makavejev's work methods, which were different from the way films were normally made in Australia. 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.ĭavid Stratton gave a copy of Frank Moorhouse's book The Americans, Baby to Dusan Makavejev when he attended the Sydney Film Festival in 1975 with Sweet Movie. 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. He literally bumps into the secretary (played by Scacchi) who is assigned to help him.īecker discovers that a local producer of soft drinks run by an old eccentric has been successfully fending off the American brand name products. Plot īecker, a hotshot American marketing executive (played by Roberts) from The Coca-Cola Company, visits their Australian operations in Sydney 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. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on the short stories The Americans, Baby, and The Electrical Experience by Frank Moorhouse, who wrote the screenplay. It was directed by Dušan Makavejev and stars Eric Roberts and Greta Scacchi. The Coca-Cola Kid is a 1985 Australian romantic comedy film.

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