Road House (1989)

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Movie
German title Road House
Original title Road House
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rowdy Herrington
script David Lee Henry
Hilary Henkin
production Joel Silver
music Michael Kamen
camera Dean Cundey
cut John F. Link
Frank J. Urioste
occupation

Road House is a 1989 American action film starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a club .

action

James Dalton is a professional bouncer with a college degree in philosophy and a dubious past. He is known for solving conflicts between guests inconspicuously, but if necessary also hard and uncompromisingly. One day he receives an offer from Frank Tilghman, who runs the formerly successful but now run-down Double Deuce nightclub in Jasper , Jasper County , Missouri . There is scuffle between the guests here night after night, which has given the nightclub a bad reputation. As managing director, Dalton is supposed to keep things tidy and train the bouncers to stop the evening brawls.

After firing a few unreliable employees when he started work and instructing the others accordingly, Dalton quickly managed to gain respect from the guests and prevent fights in the restaurant. The word gets around and soon the Double Deuce will be full every evening.

Brad Wesley, who has risen to become the secret ruler of the small town with opaque machinations and extorted protection money from local businessmen with the help of his thugs , now also wants to benefit from the increase in sales of the Double Deuce . He sends a handful of thugs to the club to cause a stir. However, Dalton and his troops can kick them out.

In a fight, Dalton is injured by a knife and has to go to the local hospital to sew. In the process, he met the accident doctor Dr. Elizabeth Clay know. She visits him the following evening in the Double Deuce and witnesses him driving a rioter to the door. The two flirt and get closer that evening.

Brad Wesley is displeased with his people's unsuccessful attempts to get rid of Daltons and blackmail the owner of the Double Deuce , Tilghman. He summons Dalton and suggests that he take his side. However, Dalton refuses.

As Wesley and his men’s attacks on Dalton and the other businessmen in town become increasingly brutal, Dalton calls on his old “teacher” and friend Wade Garret for help. First of all, they can defend themselves from being attacked by Wesley's people. Garret persuades Dalton to give up and leave town because none of this is his business. However, when Wesley first blows up the farm where Dalton lives and then has Garret killed, which he announced to Dalton on the phone - as a voting decision between Elizabeth and Garrett - it becomes a personal war against Wesley for Dalton.

Dalton arrives at Wesley's house through a diversion with his Mercedes, which he clamps on the accelerator pedal. One by one, he kills Wesley's henchmen until he finally comes face to face with Wesley, who is armed with a revolver. Dalton can gain the upper hand, but waives the fatal blow when suddenly Elizabeth appears. Wesley wants to use this moment to shoot Dalton with a revolver. The town's blackmailed businessmen appear and fire their weapons together at Wesley. They then remove the traces of their participation in the action before the police arrive. The sheriff doesn't seem overly interested in solving the case, as the city is now freed from Brad Wesley's tyranny . The last scene shows Dalton and Elizabeth bathing and kissing in the lake in front of Wesley's ranch.

Trivia

  • The film is not a remake of the Film Noir Road House , which was released in 1948 .
  • Road House 2 appeared in 2006, but apart from the title and a few empty phrases (e.g. the 3 rules) it has nothing in common with the first part.
  • The scene in which Dalton kills Wesley's best killer Jimmy by ripping his throat out is censored in a toned down German version.
  • Road House plays a key role at the beginning of the 2009 episode Brian's Got a Brand New Bag in the animated series Family Guy . The episode is dedicated to Patrick Swayze, who passed away two months earlier.
  • The film was originally approved for ages 18 and over in Germany and was also indexed in 1991 , but removed from the index in September 2011 and approved by the FSK after a re-examination for ages 16 and over.
  • Jeff Healey played the blind guitarist Cody in Road House . Together with his Jeff Healey Band Band, he also contributed three tracks to the soundtrack.

criticism

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of May 19, 1989 that Road House was “not a good movie”, but, if you approached it with the right attitude, “also not a boring one” (“This is not a good movie. But viewed in the right frame of mind, it is not a boring one, either. ").

"A primitive action film full of brutalities in itself, in which the best argument is a hard punched fist in the opponent's face."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was nominated for the Golden Raspberry negative film award in five categories : Worst Film , Worst Leading Actor (Patrick Swayze), Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Gazzara), Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay ; but he did not receive any of the awards.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release document for Roadhouse . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 62 111 V).
  2. ↑ Road House approved from 16 years of age after re-examination
  3. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
  4. ^ Road House. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used