Tag: John Travolta
Posted on August 4, 2015 |
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The Forger (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The world's best art forger makes a deal with a crime syndicate to get an early release from prison, but in return he must pull off an impossible heist – he must forge a painting by Claude Monet, steal the original from a museum, and replace it with a replica so perfect that no one will notice. He enlists the help of his father and son and together they plan the heist of their lives!
Starring: John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan, Abigail Spencer, Anson Mount, Marcus Thomas
Director: Philip Martin
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Posted on July 30, 2015 |
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Michael (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true.
Starring: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli, Jean Stapleton
Director: Nora Ephron
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Posted on July 9, 2015 |
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Lucky Numbers (2000)
Comedy | Crime
Russ Richards, a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both careers are in a rut thanks to an unusually warm winter. Russ's girlfriend Crystal appears on the State Lottery's weekly televised drawing, pulling the numbered balls out of the rotating bin. With the help of a few of his less scrupulous friends – among them sleazy strip joint proprietor Gig, small time hood Dale The Thug, and Crystal's sleazy cousin Walter – Russ figures out a way to rig the drawing and have Crystal pull numbers that they happen to own. However, Russ discovers that making the scheme work and keeping everyone quiet about it is more trouble than it's worth.
Starring: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport, Daryl Mitchell
Director: Nora Ephron
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Posted on December 29, 2014 |
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Staying Alive (1983)
Drama | Music
The electrifying sequel to Saturday Night Fever Five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet – making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage. John Travolta ignites the screen as he recreates his legendary Oscar®-nominated character. Cynthia Rhodes (Flashdance) and Finola Hughes sizzle as the women in Tony's life. And the soundtrack pulsates with the power of five unforgettable Bee Gees songs plus Frank Stallone's chart topping hit "Far From Over." Directed and co-written by another film superstar, Sylvester Stallone, Staying Alive features John Travolta in one of his most powerful and unforgettable performances.
Starring: John Travolta, Finola Hughes, Cynthia Rhodes, Joyce Hyser, Frank Stallone, Kurtwood Smith
Director: Sylvester Stallone
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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From Paris with Love (2010)
Action | Thriller
A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior- level assignment, he can't believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax – a trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back…and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.
Starring: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Amber Rose Revah, Bing Yin
Director: Pierre Morel
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Posted on September 23, 2013 |
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She's So Lovely (1997)
Drama
Eddie and Maureen know how to love each other and have a good time, but not how to live in the world. Joey loves Maureen and knows how to take care of her. It's complicated.
Starring: Sean Penn, James Gandolfini, Robin Wright, John Travolta, Susan Traylor, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Tags: Harry Dean Stanton, James Gandolfini, John Travolta, Nick Cassavetes, Robin Wright, Sean Penn, Susan Traylor
Posted on July 31, 2013 |
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Killing Season (2013)
Action | Thriller
Deep in the Appalachian mountains, a reclusive American military veteran Bejamin Ford and a European tourist Emil Kovac strike up an unlikely friendship. But when the tourist's true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America's most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one.
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia, Elizabeth Olin
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
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Posted on July 8, 2013 |
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A Civil Action (1998)
Drama
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste.
Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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Primary Colors (1998)
Comedy | Drama
Jack Stanton is running for president. The election is seen through the eyes of young Henry Burton. Along the way Stanton must deal with a sex scandal.
Starring: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Posted on April 17, 2013 |
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Grease / Grease Sing-A-Long (1978)
Musical | Romance
John Travolta solidified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play Grease. Recording star Olivia Newton-John made her American film debut as Sandy, Travolta's naive love interest. The impressive supporting cast reads like a "who's who" in this quintessential musical about the fabulous '50s. Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler decade–it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock 'n' roll!
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Posted on January 26, 2013 |
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Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
Comedy | Romance
In this, the third film, it's the pets who do the talking. The Ubriacco's find themselves the owners of two dogs, Rocks, a street wise cross breed, and Daphne, a spoilled pedegree poodle. James has a new job, pilot to the sexy and lonely Samantha. Mollie's just lost hers and is stuck at home.
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, Lysette Anthony, Olympia Dukakis
Director: Tom Ropelewski
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Posted on January 26, 2013 |
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Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
Comedy | Romance
This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister, voiced by Roseanne.
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Twink Caplan
Director: Amy Heckerling
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Posted on January 26, 2013 |
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Look Who's Talking (1989)
Comedy | Romance
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give to birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice over.
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Bruce Willis, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal
Director: Amy Heckerling
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Posted on November 6, 2012 |
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Savages (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry – raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town….until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena, and her brutal enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon – with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent – wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel.
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro, Blake Lively, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Travolta
Director: Oliver Stone
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Posted on October 8, 2012 |
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Ladder 49 (2004)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison (Phoenix), making the transition from inexperienced rookie to seasoned veteran, struggles to cope with a risky, demanding job that often shortchanges his wife and kids. He relies on the support of his mentor and captain, Mike Kennedy (Travolta) and his second family – found in the brotherly bond between the men of the firehouse. But, when Jack becomes trapped in the worst blaze of his career, his life and the things he holds important – family, dignity, courage – come into focus. As his fellow firefighters of Ladder 49 do all they can to rescue him, Jack's life hangs in the balance.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut
Director: Jay W. Russell
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Posted on August 4, 2012 |
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Walter Garber is a New York City subway dispatcher whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder, the criminal mastermind behind the hijacking and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, Robert Vataj
Director: Tony Scott
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Posted on July 16, 2012 |
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Swordfish (2001)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed Swordfish in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.
Starring: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones
Director: Dominic Sena
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Posted on June 23, 2012 |
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Phenomenon (1996)
Drama | Fantasy
The main character observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intelligent and puts the intelligence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.
Starring: John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Posted on April 14, 2012 |
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Be Cool (2005)
Comedy | Crime
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec on the way.
Starring: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin
Director: F. Gary Gray
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Tags: André Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer, Dwayne Johnson, F. Gary Gray, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn
Posted on April 14, 2012 |
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Get Shorty (1995)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
Starring: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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