Urban Cowboy

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John Travolta, wearing a black cowboy hat and blue shirt, leans against a bar holding a beer bottle in a scene from the film Urban Cowboy.

Urban Cowboy

film by Bridges [1980]

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James Bridges
Bridges also scored big with Urban Cowboy (1980), a formulaic but entertaining story about a young Texas construction worker (John Travolta) who lets his marriage to independent Sissy (Debra Winger) disintegrate while he struggles to be accepted in the world of Gilley’s, the famed Houston honky-tonk, with its mechanical bull…
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Bridges also scored big with Urban Cowboy (1980), a formulaic but entertaining story about a young Texas construction worker (John Travolta) who lets his marriage to independent Sissy (Debra Winger) disintegrate while he struggles to be accepted in the world of Gilley’s, the famed Houston honky-tonk, with its mechanical bull…
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John Travolta
Grease, Urban Cowboy, and career decline
… craze with his appearance in Urban Cowboy (1980) but soon experienced a decline in popular and critical appeal. Staying Alive, the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever, did not fare well, nor did such films as Two of a Kind (1983) and Perfect (1985).
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… craze with his appearance in Urban Cowboy (1980) but soon experienced a decline in popular and critical appeal. Staying Alive, the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever, did not fare well, nor did such films as Two of a Kind (1983) and Perfect (1985).
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