The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) on Netflix
Becker, an American Coca-Cola marketing executive, arrives in Sydney to learn why one Australian valley sells none of the company's drinks. An old eccentric there makes his own soft drinks.
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Plot summary
Becker works for Coca-Cola in the United States and is sent to the company's Australian operations in Sydney, where his task is to work out why the brand has made no headway in Anderson Valley, a small corner of the country. Terri, a secretary, is assigned to help him, and they first meet when he bumps into her. In the valley he finds T. George McDowell, an old eccentric whose own soft-drink plant keeps the American products out of the district. Becker promises an all-out marketing war against him. A waiter he comes across is convinced he is a secret agent.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Shooting The Coca-Cola Kid was difficult in part because director Dušan Makavejev's working methods were unlike the way films were normally made in Australia, and Denny Lawrence came on board as a consultant.
- The film's source material reached Dušan Makavejev in 1975, when critic David Stratton handed him Frank Moorhouse's book The Americans, Baby at the Sydney Film Festival, which Makavejev attended with Sweet Movie.
