Cocktail is just too generic...

May 5, 2008 6:46 PM

There's got to be more than Tequila Sunrise?

I'm working on a menu for a cocktail party and I'm thinking of going with mixed drinks that have the same name as a movie... this has proved difficult to Google and I don't really want to browse through the names of drinks on these overstuffed drink recipe sites. I want drinks that someone can say they have tried and it wasn't terrible, or at least that someone's heard of before.

So far, I've got on my list:
Manhattan - blended whiskey, sweet vermouth, bitters
Backdraft - cinnamon, cointreau, ice, sambuca VERY TRICKY TO PREPARE
Rob Roy - Scotch, sweet vermouth, bitters
Nixon - bourbon, sloe gin, peach bitters
Tom and Jerry - eggs, sugar, Jamaican rum, vanilla extract, allspice, ground cloves, cinnamon, whole milk, nutmeg
Tequila Sunrise - tequila, orange juice, grenadine
Strawberry Lassi - strawberries, sugar, cardamom, yogurt
French Connection - Amaretto, Cognac
Godfather - Amaretto, Scotch
Incredible Hulk - hpnotiq, Hennessy
Stinger (like The Sting) - white creme de menthe, brandy
My Fair Lady - gin, lemon juice, orange juice, Sirop de Fraise, egg white
Pink Lady (like in Grease, geddit?) - gin, grenadine, cream, egg white
Tom Collins - gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup, chilled carbonated water
Blue Hawaii - light rum, vodka, blue curacao, pineapple juice, sour mix
Hurricane - dark rum, white rum, passionfruit syrup, lime juice
Cosmopolitan (in honor of the upcoming Sex and the City movie) - vodka citron, cointreau, lime juice, cranberry juice

I doubt I'll use all of these (some of them have ingredients that are too much of a pain to acquire just for this drink). So, give me more that you can vouch for. Links to recipes a bonus.

posted by 100watts to food & drink (9 comments total)

(Sex) On the Beach?
posted by doctor_negative at 6:56 PM on May 5

Incredible Hulk
Muppet
Original Sin
Candy
Is Paris Burning
Afterglow
Galapagos
Volga Boatman
Tootsie

Just from the first 100 of 1548 cocktails here (recipes included).
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:08 PM on May 5

I got all these from Wikipedia, so they might not exactly be tried-and-true, but...

Alexander - equal parts gin, creme de cacao, and half and half, mixed in a cocktail shaker with ice, and poured into a cocktail glass. Sometimes topped with grated nutmeg or cinnamon. The Alexander is the ancestor of the Brandy Alexander.

Paradise - 7 parts gin, 4 parts apricot brandy, 3 parts orange juice

Cuba Libre - rum and coke with lime

Ectoplasm (for Ghostbusters) - vodka, nutmeg, cream, and lemon juice
posted by showbiz_liz at 7:38 PM on May 5

The Blood and Sand is named after the movie in question, and is a great drink besides.
posted by Schismatic at 7:40 PM on May 5

I'm rather partial to the Iceberg (pernod and vodka, bloody cold, on ice). I expect you could manufacture some Titanic tie-in.
posted by pompomtom at 8:48 PM on May 5

Ectoplasm--In general, aren't drinks with both cream/milk/dairy and lemon juice intended basically as a dare or an emetic?

It's a lot to make, but the King Kong is quite worth it, if you're into that kind of thing.
posted by recoveringsophist at 8:58 PM on May 5

I invented the Bukowhisky.

You get some ultra-cheap bourbon, pour it tall into a cracked, dirty glass, down it in one, then throw the glass against the wall and scream at your girlfriend.

Vaguely movie-related since Hank did, after all, make a cameo in Barfly.

Note: this cocktail does not win you any friends.
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:22 PM on May 5 [6 favorites]

By which I mean either "have a cameo" or "make a cameo appearance". Time for another Heming-WAHEY! (mojito served inside a shotgun barrel, with a fun little paper umbrella).
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:26 PM on May 5 [1 favorite]

A Gatsby is Southern Comfort, Ginger Ale and lime. Double-checking this had me find that a Great Gatsby is apparently Gin, Vodka, Vermouth and Lemon.
posted by gregjones at 11:41 PM on May 5