Road House (1989)

	Directed by: Rowdy Herrington	COUNTRY USA Genre Action NORWEGIAN TITLE Road House RUNNING TIME 114 minutes
	Produced by: Joel Silver
	Written by: David Lee Henry Hilary Henkin

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
James Dalton	Patrick Swayze
Dr. Elizabeth "Doc" Clay	Kelly Lynch
Wade Garrett	Sam Elliott
Brad Wesley	Ben Gazzara	½
Frank Tilghman	Kevin Tighe	½
Red Webster	Red West	-
Cody	Jeff Healey	-
Emmett	"Sunshine" Parker	-
Jimmy Reno	Marshall Teague	-

Review

A steamingly hot Patrick Swayze plays the best cooler/bouncer in the business, hired to clean up a rowdy bar by the name of Double Deuce in this modern-day western with a cult following. Everything is cranked up a few notches in Road House, from the wild bar fights to the larger-than-life villains. And it's all about great movie fun in the original sense of the term. Under Rowdy Herrington's direction, the film is wide-eyed enough to take itself seriously, but not so bullheaded that it ends up taking itself too seriously; a balance which enables that carefree, unreflective fun needed for this to work in the same way as those classic westerns on which it is all moulded. With Sam Elliott as Swayze's old pal and peer, and Ben Gazzara as the town bully.