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John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, dancer and singer. He first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Travolta's career re-surged in the 1990s...
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a 2009 thriller film, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Denzel Washington, and John Travolta. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Morton Freedgood (writing under the pseudonym John Godey), and is a...
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A Civil Action
A Civil Action is a 1998 film starring John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann) and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr. Both the book and the film are based on a true story that took place in Woburn,...
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A Love Song for Bobby Long
A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel. The screenplay is based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps.
Combining elements of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, the...
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Bolt
Bolt tells the story of a dog who is convinced that his role as a super dog is reality. When he is ripped from his world of fantasy, and action by his own doing. His own obsession with his owner and keeping her protected from the green eyed man of...
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Basic
Basic is a 2003 thriller film directed by John McTiernan.
A helicopter circles over the Panamanian jungle. On board is a team of Army Ranger trainees and their instructor, Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson). Their objective is to move through the...
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Be Cool
Be Cool is a 2005 American comedy film which was adapted from a 1999 novel. The book was the sequel to the 1990 novel Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (itself adapted into a hit 1995 film) about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the film industry....
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Blow Out
Blow Out is a 1981 thriller film, written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget horror film, serendipitously...
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Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater. The original music score was composed by Hans Zimmer, and features the legendary guitarist, Duane Eddy. It...
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Carrie
Carrie is a 1976 American horror film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King. The film and the novel deal with a socially outcast teenage girl, Carrie White, who discovers she possesses...
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Face/Off
Face/Off is a 1997 film directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The two both play an FBI agent and a terrorist, sworn enemies who assume the physical appearance of one another.
The film exemplifies gun fu and heroic bloodshed...
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Grease
Grease is a 1978 film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Jim Jacobs' and Warren Casey's musical, Grease. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, and Eve Arden.
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Hairspray
Hairspray is a 2007 American musical film produced by Zadan/Meron Productions and distributed by New Line Cinema. It was released in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on July 20, 2007. The film is an adaptation of the 2002 Broadway...
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Ladder 49
Ladder 49 is a 2004 drama film about the rescue of Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison who is trapped inside of a structure fire, and his recollection of the events that got him to that point. The movie is a celebration of the firefighting...
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Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking is a 1989 comedy film which stars John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Bruce Willis plays the voice of Mollie's son, Mikey. The movie also features George Segal as Albert, the illegitimate father of Mikey. The film was written and...
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Lucky Numbers
Lucky Numbers is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Nora Ephron. The screenplay by Adam Resnick was inspired by the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal.
Russ Richards, the weatherman for a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania television station, is revered...
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Michael
Michael is the title of an American fantasy motion picture directed by Nora Ephron and released in 1996. The film stars John Travolta as the Archangel Michael, who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts. The cast...
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Phenomenon
Phenomenon is a 1996 drama, romance, and fantasy film written by Gerald Di Pego, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall.
In the film, an amiable, small-town everyman is inexplicably...
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Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man, coming of age, whose weekend activities are visits to a local Brooklyn discothèque and Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual girlfriend. While in...
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Swordfish
Swordfish is a 2001 crime thriller film, directed by Dominic Sena, and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, and Vinnie Jones.
Stanley Jobson (Jackman) is an elite hacker who infected the FBI's Carnivore program with a...
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The General's Daughter
The General's Daughter is a 1999 film starring John Travolta. The plot concerns the mysterious death of the daughter of a prominent general. The movie is based on the novel by the same name written in 1992 by Nelson DeMille, and was directed by...
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The Punisher
The Punisher is a 2004 comic book action film, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Thomas Jane as the antihero Frank Castle / The Punisher and John Travolta as the villain Howard Saint, a money launderer who orders the...
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The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II with the focus on the men in C Company, most notably Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) and his conflicted feelings...
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Urban Cowboy
Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romantic drama film about the love-hate relationship between cowboy Bud Davis (John Travolta) and cowgirl Sissy (Debra Winger).
The movie starts out with Bud Davis moving to Houston, Texas from Spur, Texas. He soon...
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Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic...
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Shout
Shout is a 1991 film starring John Travolta as a music teacher who introduces rock and roll to a west Texas home for boys in 1955.
The film also features Jamie Walters, Scott Coffey, Heather Graham and Glenn Quinn as well as a first role for Gwyneth...
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Wild Hogs
Wild Hogs is a 2007 comedy film starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy. It was released nationwide in the United States and Canada on March 2, 2007, though preview film screenings were held in select areas on February...
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Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is an American film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard that was released on May 12, 2000. Directed by Roger Christian, the film stars John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, and Barry...
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White Man's Burden
White Man's Burden is a 1995 dramatic film about racism in an alternate America where Black and White Americans have reversed cultural roles.
The film revolves around Louis Pinnock a White factory worker (John Travolta), who kidnaps Thaddeus Thomas,...
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Primary Colors
Primary Colors is a 1998 film starring John Travolta based on the popular book (a success fueled in part by speculation over the identity of the then-anonymous author, Joe Klein). It also starred Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates and...
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Two of a Kind
Two of a Kind is a 1983 romantic comedy film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The original music score was composed by Patrick Williams.
The film has Travolta as an inventor and Newton-John as a bank teller. It is up to both criminally...
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Look Who's Talking Too
Look Who's Talking Too is the 1990 sequel to the commercially successful movie Look Who's Talking (1989). It stars John Travolta and Kirstie Alley as the parents of Mikey (voiced by Bruce Willis), a toddler coping with the newest addition to the...
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Lonely Hearts
Lonely Hearts is a 2006 American film directed and written by Todd Robinson. It is based on the true story of the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers" of the 1940s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez. The story of Beck and Fernandez was also the subject...
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 made-for-TV movie inspired by the lives of David Vetter and Ted DeVita, who lacked effective immune systems. It stars John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Diana Hyland, and Robert Reed. It was written by Douglas...
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She's So Lovely
She's So Lovely is a 1997 film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by the late John Cassavetes. At the time of its release, it received special attention because, eight years after his death, it was the first (and still only) film to posthumously...
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Domestic Disturbance
Domestic Disturbance (2001) is a thriller movie, directed by Harold Becker and starring John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo, Matt O'Leary and Steve Buscemi.
Tagline: He will do anything to protect his family.
Susan Morrison (Teri Polo) is getting...
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Get Shorty
Get Shorty is a 1995 film based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starred John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, and Delroy Lindo. The plot remained true to the...
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Staying Alive
Staying Alive is the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as the main character, Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn...
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Look Who's Talking Now
Look Who's Talking Now is the third film in the film series that began with Look Who's Talking in 1989. Released in 1993, the film finds John Travolta and Kirstie Alley reprising their roles as James and Mollie Ubriacco, respectively, and...
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Perfect
Perfect is a 1985 American feature film, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta. The film was based on a series of articles that appeared in Rolling Stone magazine in the late 1970s, chronicling the popularity of Los Angeles health clubs...
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Mad City
Mad City is a 1997 drama and thriller film written by Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, directed by Costa Gavras, and starring John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry, Jay Leno, and Larry...
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Eyes of an Angel
Eyes of an Angel is a 1991 drama set in Chicago and California starring John Travolta and directed by Robert Harmon. It was released in France, Sweden, and on TV in the US as The Tender. It was released straight to video in 1994 under its proper...
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Austin Powers: Goldmember
Austin Powers in Goldmember, released in 2002, is the third film of the Austin Powers series starring Mike Myers in the title role. The movie was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. Myers also plays the roles...
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Boris and Natasha
Boris and Natasha is a 1992 comedy film that was loosely based on the animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The actors did not attempt to copy the accents of their animated counterparts, and although Rocky and Bullwinkle do not...
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The Devil's Rain
The Devil's Rain is a 1975 low-budget horror film, directed by Robert Fuest. The film is remembered primarily for its over-long and drawnout ending, in which most of the cast melts. It was one of several B-films in which William Shatner starred in...
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Welcome to Hollywood
Welcome to Hollywood is a mockumentary about a young man trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. Tony Markes is the young man trying to pursue the means to become an actor. Various attempts to get him noticed and in roles in film and television...
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The Tenth Level
The Tenth Level is a 1975 TV-movie starring William Shatner. It is a dramatization of the infamous Milgram experiment from 1961 in which subjects were unknowingly tested to see how much pain (in the form of electric shocks) they were willing to...
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Old Dogs
Old Dogs is an upcoming 2009 American comedy film directed by Wild Hogs's Walt Becker and starring John Travolta and Robin Williams with supporting roles played by Kelly Preston, Matt Dillon, Justin Long, Seth Green, Rita Wilson, Dax Shepard and...
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Chains of Gold
Chains of Gold is a 1991 Made-for-TV crime drama/action film starring and co-written by John Travolta. It was directed by Rod Holcomb and included one of the early performances of Joseph Lawrence, who was nominated for Young Artist Award for his...
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From Paris with Love
From Paris With Love is an upcoming 2010 action film starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and directed by Pierre Morel. The screenplay was co-written by Luc Besson. The film's score was composed by David Buckley. An official trailer of...
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Wild Hogs 2: Bachelor Ride
Wild Hogs 2: Bachelor Ride is a 2010 comedy film starring John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy, and Martin Lawrence. It is a sequel to Wild Hogs.
Dudley is just about to marry Maggie. The boys decide to take Dudley out for one last ride. The...
