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Road House (19-May-1989)
Director: Rowdy Herrington Writers: David Lee Henry; Hilary Henkin Musical Score by: Michael Kamen Producer: Joel Silver Keywords: Action/Adventure, Martial Arts Patrick Swayze is Dalton, a bouncer with a NYU philosophy degree hired to clean up a bar that has become far too rowdy. Ben Gazzara is Brad Wesley, a Boss Hogg-type who demands total control. Action B-movie has a script blessed with a wealth of one-liners and comebacks; the sheer guilty pleasure of Road House overcomes any flaws it may possess.
CAST | Patrick Swayze | ... Dalton | | | Ben Gazzara | ... Brad Wesley | | Kelly Lynch | ... Doc | | Kevin Tighe | ... Tilghman | | Keith David | ... Ernie Bass | | Kathleen Wilhoite | ... Carrie | | | Sunshine Parker | ... Emmet | | Red West | ... Red Webster | | Julie Michaels | ... Denise | | | and | | Sam Elliott | ... Wade Garrett | | | Marshall Teague | ... Jimmy | | Jeff Healey | ... Cody | | John Doe | ... Pat McGurn | | Travis McKenna | ... Jack | | Roger Hewlett | ... Younger | | Kurt James Stefka | ... Hank | | Gary Hudson | ... Steve | | Terry Funk | ... Morgan | | Michael Rider | ... O'Connor | | John Young | ... Tinker | | Anthony DeLongis | ... Ketchum | | Joe Unger | ... Karpis | | Tiny Ron | ... Mountain | | Sheila Caan | ... Judy | | Jon Paul Jones | ... Stroudenmire | | Lauri Crossman | ... Stella | | Ed DeFusco | ... Oscar | | Joseph Rockman | ... Cody's Band | | Thomas Stephen | ... Cody's Band | | Humberto Larriva | ... Cruzados | | Anthony Marsico | ... Cruzados | | Gonzalo Quintana III | ... Cruzados | | Marshall Rohner | ... Cruzados | | John Oldach | ... Bandstand Tough Guy | | Joey Plewa | ... Bandstand Tough Guy | | Susan Lentini | ... Bandstand Babe | | Patricia Tallman | ... Bandstand Babe | | Mike Fisher | ... Bandstand Bouncer | | Bob A. Jennings | ... Bandstand Bouncer | | Dawn Ciccone | ... Steve's Girl | | Julie Royer | ... Steve's Girl | | Frank Noon | ... Barfly | | Christopher Collins | ... Sharing Husband | | Cheryl Baker | ... Well-Endowed Wife | | Michael Wise | ... Gawker | | Charles Hawke | ... Heckler | | Tom Finnegan | ... Chief of Police | | Christine Anderson | ... Party Girl | | Lisa Axelrod | ... Party Girl | | Debra Chase | ... Party Girl | | Lisa Westman | ... Party Girl | | Kymberly Herrin | ... Party Girl | | Kym Malin | ... Party Girl | | Heidi Paine | ... Party Girl | | Jacklyn Palmer | ... Party Girl | | Marta Rinchusiuso | ... Party Girl | | Meg Thayer | ... Party Girl | | Laura Albert | ... Strip Joint Girl | | Christina Veronica | ... Strip Joint Girl | | Jasae | ... Strip Joint Girl | | Michele Burger | ... Strip Joint Girl | | Pamela Jackson | ... Strip Joint Girl | | Daryl Sandy Marsh | ... Strip Joint Bartender | | Laura Lee Kasten | ... Nurse | | Bill Dunnam | ... Car Salesman | | Terrance Scott | ... Loudmouth | | Sylvia Baker | ... Table Dancer | | Dennis Ott | ... Bar Character | | Ancel Cook | ... Grillman | | Chino "Fats" Williams | ... Derelict |
REVIEWS Review by anonymous (posted on 10-May-2006) If you are a young blue collar
american male, then "Road House" is your "Ben Hur." It tells the story
of an expert "cooler" (a security manager at a bar) named Dalton who is
paid by a nightclub owner in a small Southern town to help him clean up
his roadhouse bar, named the Double Deuce. People who are hypercritical
of action films will say that the premise is dumb and the characters
are rednecks. This movie is not "Being John Malcovich" or "Fight Club"
and does not presume to be. It won't make you think very hard and there
aren't any strange plot twists. But this film is entertaining and has
strong points. For one, Dalton (played by "Dirty Dancer" Patrick
Swayze) comes from a mysterious background. The film makers don't try to
build him him up as an ex-special forces commando or rogue ex-cop. He
is shown exercising one morning by doing Yang style Tai Chi in a horse
pasture and one of the other bouncers at the Double Deuce reveals that
Dalton once killed a man by ripping his throat out. In one climatic
scene, Dalton demonstrates this technique, a Kung Fu "eagle claw" where
the fingers of his right hand hook into the soft tissues around a man's
trachea which is torn sideways, killing him. Still, Dalton isn't
superhuman. He's fast but gets punched and cut and, occasionally, even
shot. And he isn't inhumanly strong and has to hit people repeatedly to
put them down. Sam Elliot plays his friend Wade, an old burned out
bouncer who taught Dalton the ins and outs of the profession. Jeff
Healey is on-hand playing a terrible bar musician (what a stretch).
There are several entertaining fights where local tough guys employed
by a the town bully, a crime lord played by Ben Gazzara,pit their drug
and alcohol induced fury against Daltons skill and physical dicipline.
Swayze has several stupid and annoying lines in the film, like bragging
"pain don't hurt", but it adds to the charm. You can see that once the
trouble with the local bad guys starts escalating beyond the confines
of the bar, Dalton seems out of his element: he's a bouncer not a hero.
Kelly Lynch plays Dalton's boring pacifist girlfriend, a local doctor
who doesn't believe in killing even in self-defense. For all Dalton's
neo-buddhist, existential nonsense, this is still a movie about a
bouncer beating the crap out of people. And on those merits, it is
entertaining. It definately must be watched at least once in a man's
lifetime and discussed with other men. Most women I know despise this
movie. This movie was not made for them. Enjoy.
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