Road House is a 1989 action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a seedy roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman.

Plot summary

James Dalton (Swayze) is a professional "cooler" (i.e. head bouncer) with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job in New York City by club owner Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to take over security at his club/bar, the Double Deuce, in Jasper, Missouri. Not a particularly physically threatening man and with a philosophy degree from New York University and a preference for peacefully resolving confrontation, Dalton seems the antithesis of a nightclub bouncer.