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Urban Cowboy
film by Bridges [1980]
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discussed in biography
- In 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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role of Travolta
- In John Travolta
… 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). In 1991 he married actress Kelly…
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