Patrick Swayze trained as a ballet dancer with the Joffrey before a knee injury, and the physical control is visible in everything including the fight scenes.
Dirty Dancing, Ghost and Point Break are the three that lasted, and Point Break in particular gives him a genuinely strange philosophical villain. To Wong Foo cast him entirely against type. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2009 having continued to work through treatment.
Ben GazzaraRoad House (1989) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A philosophy graduate is hired to clean up a Missouri bar and ends up fighting a monster truck. It took five Razzie nominations, underperformed in cinemas, and became…
Cynthia RhodesDirty Dancing (1987) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film about class and an illegal abortion, marketed as a summer romance. Made for five million dollars by people nobody expected anything from, and still running forty…
Drew BarrymoreDonnie Darko (2001) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A time loop film that works better as a portrait of adolescence than as a mechanism. Failed on release for reasons of timing, found its people on DVD,…
C Thomas HowellHowell, Lowe, Macchio, Dillon, Cruise, Estevez, Swayze. After Johnny kills a Soc during a confrontation in defense of Ponyboy, the boys flee to an abandoned country church where they hide until Johnny suffers fatal injuries rescuing children from the burning…
Demi MooreJerry Zucker's 1990 supernatural romance. The pottery scene, the subway ghost.
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