Road House
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Road House
Directed by: Rowdy Herrington
Written by: R. Lance Hill (Story) Hilary Henkin (Scrrenplay)
Starring:
Patrick Swayze
Kelly Lynch
Sam Elliot
Ben Gazzara
Julie Michaels
Release date: May 19, 1989
Budget: $17,000,000M ($39,635,911.29M in 2022)
Box Office: $61.6M ($143,621,890.32 in 2022)
Gross worldwide
$30,050,028M ($70,062,367.30M in 2022)
Ratings: IMDb 6.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes 37%
Metacritic 36% Google Users 87%
Between VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and Streaming service sales, 'Road House' has grossed over $203 Million dollars. The film was originally released on VHS and then on DVD. In the United States MGM first released the film on DVD on February 4, 2003 with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and theatrical trailer as the sole extra feature.[12] In 2006 a Deluxe Edition DVD was released with two audio commentaries including one with the director, two featurettes titled "On the Roadhouse" and "What Would Dalton Do?".[13]Road House was first issued by MGM on Blu-ray disc on June 2, 2009. A second disc combines the same six special features ported from the Deluxe DVD.[14] After being reissued numerous times in the U.S., in 2016 Shout! Factory released a 2-disc Blu-ray collectors edition with fourteen extra features with material ported over from the previous editions. New supplements include a ‘making of’ documentary with new interviews by Herrington, actors Kelly Lynch, John Doe, Kevin Tighe, Julie Michaels and Red West, a separate conversation with the director and featurette for the films music
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Razzie Awards 1990
Nominee
Razzie Award
Worst Picture
Joel Silver
Worst Actor
Patrick Swayze
For Next of Kin
Worst Supporting Actor
Ben Gazzara
Worst Director
Rowdy Herrington
Worst Screenplay
R. Lance Hill (also story)
Hilary Henkin
First time you saw the movie?
Plot:
-Patrick Swayzes epic mullet
-What kind of asshole kicks a woman like that guy in the beginning?
-$5K up front, and $500 a night. If you work 5 days a week, that's 260 days a year. That's $130K, all cash, no taxes. Not too shabby. Even if its only 4 days a week, that's 208 days a year, which is $104K. Not bad for 1989. In 2022, that would be ~$242K.
-That's the most well lit dive bar I've ever seen.
-Any of yall ever been in a huge brawl like that?
-How did Dalton know where to go to rent the room?
-Guess Dalton doing Tai Chi is an excuse to get his shirt off?
-There isn't much depth to the movie or characters
-The standing/walking sex would not be fun...
-What're the chances he ends up living across the river from his enemy
-This whole thing is just a dick measuring contest between Dalton and Brad
-Bigfoot through the car dealership was fun
-Pretty decent fight between Dalton and Jimmy; the music was way over dramatic
-I love that he kills a guy, and no one does anything. No cops, or anything.
-Brad takes 3 shotgun blasts, and is still standing? I doubt it.
-Is "I didn't see anything" a good legal defense? That's how you outsmart cops?
-No cops with all the killing until AFTER Brad is killed... Convenient.
Top Five Trivia of the movie:
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It was announced in September 2015 that this film is to be remade, starring Ronda Rousey. But after her November fight loss to Holly Holm, all movie plans were scrapped.
The movie was not filmed in Missouri.
Though the plot is set in the town of Jasper, Missouri, Road House's infamous bar, The Double Deuce, was built for on-site filming in California. Some of the bar's interior footage was filmed in a real Anaheim bar that is now closed.
Swayze was not a fan of the legendary mullet.
As iconic as Swayze's mullet was, the actor referred to his Road House hairstyle as "the bane of my existence" in the biographical book One Last Dance.
The NYPD uses the movie's three simple rules during retraining.
Patrick, in the role of Dalton, lays down the three rules of the Double Deuce club. In 2015, New York Post exclusively reported that lecture portions of a mandatory, three-day retraining course for cops were being revamped with Road House as a training tool.
Swayze's hotness caused problems on set.
During shooting, a horde of middle-aged blonde women in a truck tried to pull up in front of the actor's trailer, in a wild attempt to speak with Swayze. During the film's river fight scene, a raft of Swayze fans cruised by. Another time, an extra, who was playing a waitress, was so lovestruck with the heartthrob she tripped and spilled her drinks on an unlucky extra nearby.
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