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The late Patrick Swayze<\/a> had a hell of a run in the four years between 1987 and 1991. In that short space of time, he made four movies, Dirty Dancing, Road House, Ghost and Point Break that did the very tricky thing of making him equally as attractive to both men and women and grossed almost a billion dollars at the box office.\u00a0<\/p>\n That string of movies made him one of the most in-demand and most famous film stars on the planet, but it undoubtedly came at a huge cost to Swayze and his health, both physical and mental, and in 1989, he was already speaking about having to turn to therapy and investigating meditation in order to make sense of the insanity around him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sadly, the overarching issue that the actor had was his turning to alcohol in order to cope<\/a>, and he battled hard against drink for ten years, beginning after his father\u2019s death in 1982. The fact that he had already been fighting alcoholism for many years before he became world famous makes his performances in those historic films all the more impressive, especially those involving prolonged periods of action like Road House.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the height of his global fame in the early 1990s, however, Swayze\u2019s drinking had become a serious issue, and his family was struggling to know what to do. Two years had passed since\u00a0Point Break,\u00a0and he had only made a brief cameo in Robert Altman\u2019s\u00a0The Player\u00a0and the film\u00a0City of Joy\u00a0about poverty in India, which had flopped. He then signed on to a comedy called Father Hood in 1993 alongside Halle Berry, which would open to disastrous reviews.<\/p>\n