Road House

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Director: Rowdy Herrington

Stars: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott

Year: 1989 Running Time: 110 mins Rating:

Patrick Swayze is on head-busting form as Dalton, the cool-as-Coors bouncer hired to to protect a rowdy smalltown saloon from the local Mr Big (Ben Gazzara). Not that the one-man A-Team needs much help, but hot doc Kelly Lynch and legendary doorman Sam Elliott join the fray anyway. Girls, guns and good, old-fashioned fisticuffs - missing this is like a smack in the chops.

Review

Full of sex and violence, this is a beefcake vehicle for Patrick Swayze, who takes on the job of 'cooler' - head bouncer - at a rowdy Midwest road house. 'It's my way or the highway,' growls Swayze, though he doesn't say that to sexy local doctor Kelly Lynch. Swayze finds he has to take on the whole lawless town, especially big shot Ben Gazzara and his gang of heavies. Though originality is nowhere in sight, there's blood, sweat and tears aplenty.