Watch a Mixologist Fact-Check Hollywood Bar Scenes

1,511 views · Published 27 September 2018 · 5:07 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: Vulture · 2018 · Entertainment

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In Vulture’s video series, Expert Witness, we ask scientists, historians, and other professionals to give Hollywood movies a good old-fashioned fact-check.

The “bar scene” has become a staple of action movies, romantic comedies and sitcoms alike, but how do these depictions of bar culture actually hold up to reality? To find out, we turned to April Wachtel, mixology instructor and founder and CEO of the cocktail mixer delivery service Swig + Swallow.

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