Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she started her career when she was still in college, writing for a local newspaper after a brief stint in film school.
The Big Picture There is a scene in Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 cult classic Road House in which the main character, Dalton, played by certified 80s heartthrob Patrick Swayze, rips a man’s throat out with his bare hands. Here's how it plays out: Dalton is recovering from the hottest of dates with his love interest, Dr. Elizabeth Clay , when one of his enemy's minions, Jimmy , blows up the house of the very nice farmer that agreed to offer him board during his stay at Jasper, Missouri.
Road House RActionThriller A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner. You see, the scoundrels that spend their nights drinking and wrecking Tilghman’s Double Deuce are the least of Jasper’s problems. The town is also suffering under the thumb of would-be mobster Brad Wesley , a millionaire who has the police in his pocket and who extorts exorbitant amounts of money from local businessmen. When he fires a dishonest bartender who also happens to be Wesley’s nephew from the Double Deuce, Dalton ends up with a problem on his hands.
‘Road House’s Chaotic Plot Seems to Work by Improv Rules Close Plot-wise, Road House seems to work by improv rules. It’s as if the two screenwriters are constantly playing “yes, and…” with one another. Dalton is a celebrity bouncer who gets sent to Missouri. Yes, and he gets in the way of a good-for-nothing millionaire. Yes, and he falls in love with said millionaire’s former flame.
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