ROAD HOUSE



Road House is a "classic" action flick starring the late Patrick Swayze. In the flick, Swayze plays a bouncer named Dalton with a degree in philosophy--stay with me here!--who gets "hired" to be the head "cooler" at a club called the Double Deuce in a small town in Missouri. Along the way, Dalton locks heads with the town head honcho Brad Wesley--again, stay with me!--which culminates in a rather violent confrontation both with Wesley and Brad's lead henchman whom Dalton kills by ripping out his throat with his bare hand. Nice! Road House also stars raspy-voiced Sam Elliot who plays Dalton's older--and supposedly wiser--mentor who's himself a "cooler" who visits Dalton and winds up--spoiler alert!--getting knifed in the chest by Wesley's henchmen and hot-as-hell Kelly Lynch as Dalton's doctor love-interest (and, yes, fellas, Kelly has a nudie scene in the flick!). As one would probably expect, the rest of the cast of the film consists of a rather colorful assortment of, shall we say, characters. Actually, Road House isn't too bad of a flick as far as action flicks go and is, I think, a prime example of a good "bad" film. Road House is the type of flick where you need to suspend disbelief and turn off your brain for a couple of hours to really enjoy it. Of course, I think the same could be said of Patrick's earlier "classic" film Dirty Dancing, which, along with Ghost, is one of Swayze's best-known flicks (which contains perhaps one of the cheesiest lines in movie history of which Swayze himself stated made him cringe: "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!"). Road House is probably his most "famous" flick among the fellas mainly because it has PLENTY of action and has LITTLE dancing (sorry, ladies!) and has gone on to enjoy a "cult" following. The movie has even been "referenced" on other shows like Family Guy and there was even a straight-to-video sequel that was released years later of which didn't feature Patrick Swayze. Oh yeah, Road House was also directed by a director named--and, no, I'm NOT making this up!--Rowdy Herrington. Kind of explains a lot, doesn't it? Best line in the flick: "Be nice until it's time to not be nice." Second best line in the flick: "A polar bear fell on me." A sidenote: One of the co-stars of the film is a musician named Jeff Healey who was blind and was most noted for playing the guitar on his lap (see YouTube clip below). In the flick, The Jeff Healey Band is the house band for the Double Deuce who provides much of the music for the film's soundtrack. (Patrick also performed a song or two for the film's soundtrack as he did for Dirty Dancing.) Jeff died about a year before Patrick Swayze did. Both are sorely missed!