Cast and Crew: Joel Silver (Producer); Michael Kamen (Score); Dean Cundey (Cinematography); Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliot, Red West, Jeff Healey, Kevin Tighe, John Doe, Keith David
What It’s About: In a world where the right bouncer can determine your bar’s success or failure, where bouncers are mystical warriors with a code, and where Ben Gazzara can hold a town hostage largely by regulating their access to honkey tonks, Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is hired to tame the unruly crowd at the Double Deuce.
Why Watch it Today?: Patrick Swayze would have turned 60 today. Road House numbers among the most beloved cult movies from Swayze, a dancer turned god of cheesy movies.
Other Choices: Steel Dawn, Red Dawn, Donnie Darko
I am eternally charmed by this big dumb flick.
You know, to be completely honest, I need to see it again-I haven’t seen it all the way through in 20 years.