Road House

Road House (1989)

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Corrected entry: The blind guitar player (Jeff Healey) is wearing a wristwatch throughout the film. Did I mention he's BLIND?

Correction: Blind people do wear watches - either ones that speak or ones with numbers in braille.

Rlvlk

Correction: Jeff Healey was actually blind - he wore a watch - reality trumps a movie fiction.

Corrected entry: When Dalton is getting the staples put in his side to mend his knife wound, he has his hand behind his head showing his bicep. In one shot he has a mole on his bicep then on the next one it's gone.

Correction: The mole is there, it's just out of sight because his arm is repositioned higher in the subsequent shot. You can see a perfect example of this after the scene where doctor grabs the stapler and says, "OK", just before she staples his wound. The shot shows Dalton's arm and we can see the mole seconds before he raises his arm a little higher to allow her to staple. As he does that, the mole is hidden out of sight right before your eyes.

Corrected entry: Whenever Dalton visits Red's Garage, we always see him driving out to this location. Yet when the fire at Red's happens it happens right across the street from the Double Deuce in walking distance.

Correction: Would it not be reasonable that Dalton was driving from the farm rather than from the Double Deuce? After all, he doesn't live at the bar.

Corrected entry: Dalton exits his car and tosses the keys to the African American wino, saying 'keep it, it's yours', then walks away. The wino uncovers the car and gets in, but the hand that puts the key in the ignition is caucasian.

pgsgrad16

Correction: It's not the wino that uncovers the car, it's Dalton. The wino is wearing a denim jacket. Dalton is wearing white jacket and white trousers. The wino gets the keys to the old junker car, that's not covered. Then it cuts to the covered car, which is Dalton's actual 'non-junker' Mercedes-Benz, parked inside the parking garage. It is Dalton's hand that turns the key to his Mercedes-Benz, henceforth, Caucasian.

Corrected entry: When Dalton, Jeff Healey, and Dalton's girlfriend drive by the car dealership, the big bouncer announces that Brad Wesley is putting something down on a new car. When Wesley's thug runs over and destroys the cars in the monster truck, they're all older - early 70's models, hardly "new".

Leonard Hassen

Correction: The bouncer was making a joke - "putting something down on a car" would have sounded odd.

Mobrien316

Corrected entry: When Dalton visits Brad Wesley at his home, Wesley tells the story of how he grew up on the mean streets of Chicago. Assuming he's rich and has connections in Chicago, why couldn't he just have Dalton killed off by a hit man instead of these bumbling rednecks that he employs.

Leonard Hassen

Correction: Just because he grew up in Chicago doesn't mean he has ties to the mob. Or he could have been greatly exaggerating his importance.

Corrected entry: In the scene when Dalton has been brought to see Mr. Wesley, he and the two goons walk in the house and pass a pool table on their right. The pool table (which is full size and not bumper pool) has no pockets and only three balls on the table.

Correction: The pool table they pass is in fact a billiard table. A game played with three balls on a full sized table with no pockets.

Corrected entry: Swayze gives away his Benz to an African American man, but the hands of the person starting the car seem to belong to a Caucasian man. (00:06:05 - 00:07:10)

Correction: Swayze wears a white jacket and white pants (00:08:20) as he gives the keys of his old junker car (not covered with tarp) to the black man who wears a blue denim jacket and jeans, and Swayze walks into the parking garage (00:08:35). It then cuts to Swayze (white jacket and white pants) as he removes the tarp over his Mercedes-Benz, parked inside the parking garage. Next close-ups show Swayze's hand turns the ignition key to start his Mercedes-Benz, revs engine, and puts in cassette tape.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: There is a scene that starts with one of the bar waitresses (Kari-Ann) up on the stage singing with the band. Watch the drummer; some of his playing is in perfect sync with the singer and music, but at another time you can hear a cymbal crash when visually he doesn't hit a cymbal.

Correction: He could have had a foot pedal setup for the cymbal.

Cymbals are not operated by foot pedals; you might be thinking of the hi-hat.

jshy7979

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Continuity mistake: This mistake occurs when Dalton shakes Emmet's hand while outside the horse barn. When they first meet he is working, wearing gloves. After they make intros and shake hands, he is not wearing gloves. In the immediate scene after, he is shown picking up hay and the gloves are back on. (00:20:50)

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Trivia: During the fight scene between Jimmy and Dalton, Jimmy slams a log against Dalton's chest. The log you see here is a real one. Marshall Teague thought the log was a breakable prop and kept slamming it into Patrick Swayze's chest with each take. By the end, Swayze's chest was covered in bruises.

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Answer: Only in the sense that the writer wanted them to have very masculine names.

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