In 'Road House' (1989), philosophy student Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is hired as a bouncer to clean up the rowdy road house 'Double Deuce'. Being a man of ideas, he at first tries to solve problems without resorting to violence, his formidable reputation doing much of the work for him. However, he has not reckoned on the perverse will of the local crimelord (Ben Gazzara), a man with ideas of his own, and despite Dalton's best intentions, much fist-fighting ensues.

'Road House 2: Last Call' (2006), when undercover DEA agent Shane (Johnathon Schaech) learns that his uncle Nate (Will Patton) has been brutally assaulted by thugs in a violent attempt to muscle away ownership of the battered bar owner's lucrative watering hole, he hastily comes to his uncle's rescue while attempting to locate the powerful drug lord who authorised the attack. Now, as an endless barrage of drug runners descends upon the Black Pelican with every intention of using brute force to claim the place as their own, it's up to Shane to take on the toughest fighters in the underworld save his uncle's bar the only way that he knows how.