Word: gilley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main location is Gilley's, a sprawling honky-tonk near Houston, which features country music in an allegedly volatile atmosphere. It provides the emotional center for the lives of some of the working-class population of that booming and still settling American city. Bridges' version of the action at Gilley's is strangely soft. What should be a jostling, raunchy, sexually charged atmosphere seems cool, dull and listless...
...readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up each night in western duds that no working cowboy would ever wear, the clock punchers also slip into a set of values that are as impractical for modern urban life as a pair of chaps. For a little while each night in Gilley's, they can play at being tough loners who like their whisky rough and their women silent, pliable and indifferent to indifference...
...tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved in with him. Bud immediately takes up with Pam (Madolyn Smith), a rich man's bored daughter who likes to slum in Gilley's. The destinies of these people, all of whom are about as articulate as the mechanical beast, are finally worked out in a riding contest - a sit-out instead of a Shootout - between Bud and Wes and in an even more melodramatic coda. This provides added opportunities for heroics...