This glammy documentary about bartenders in the age of the cocktail revival features lots of fast montages of behind-the-bar action, well-lit patrons having a great time, and quick hits of various talking heads (including the New York Times’ Robert Simonson and the author/screenwriter of Cocktail). A young apprentice at New York uber-bar Employees Only is one focus; he was in the US Marines, bound for Afghanistan, when he was nearly killed in a bar fight, and through bartending, he says, he’s been “reborn.” He knows he lacks the wisdom of the bartender as “the sage,” yet with bar-stardom, hubris seems to creep in… Meanwhile, another you-can’t-write-this-stuff character, the owner of a failing middle-of-the-road Connecticut pub, dolefully shows the filmmakers the foreclosure notice on his home and wonders whether “it might be time for me to start a real, or different, life.” A visit to the decadent Tales of the Cocktail conference, a few desultory consultations, and the purchase of a trendy hat ensues, along with the implication that Cocktails Save. It’s all rather morbidly fascinating—smooth-talking “King Cocktail” Dale DeGroff deserves his own film—but true cocktail nerds looking for the history, science, or heart of bartending won’t find much here. recommended