It's rare that a movie captures the intensity and excitement of a live Broadway musical production while appealing to a broader movie-going audience, but the 2007 Hairspray is an energetic, powerfully moving film that does just that. A re-make of the 1988 musical film Hairspray the new Hairspray is a film adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical and features more likeable ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: John Travolta, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, Taylor Parks, Jesse WeaferDirected By: Adam Shankman
Grease was a phenomenal hit with its target teenage audience when it was released in 1977. The songs dominated the pop charts and brought heady success for its lead actors, John Travolta (Danny) and Olivia Newton-John (Sandy) despite the fact that--as with their energetic co-stars--their own teenage years were some way behind them. As they seize the chance to relive their schooldays, their ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry PearlDirected By: Randal Kleiser
A coming-of-age story starring a bunch of fiftysomething stars rather than teenage actors, Wild Hogs is a well-intentioned comedy starring John Travolta (Woody), Tim Allen (Doug), Martin Lawrence (Bobby), and William H. Macy (Dudley) as a group of Midwesterners facing their own versions of mid-life crises. They decide to escape their frazzled personal lives and rejuvenate themselves by ...
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home EntertainmentStarring: John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H Macy, Tim Allen
With Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender after initial success with 1992's Reservoir Dogs. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the sort of juicy ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Samuel L. JacksonDirected By: Quentin Tarantino
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)Starring: John Travolta
At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina GershonDirected By: John Woo
In paying simple tribute to firefighters, Ladder 49 gets to the heart of those who risk their lives for a living. Director Jay Russell brought similar sincerity to his memorable family favorite My Dog Skip, and despite the banalities of an ultra-conventional screenplay by Lewis Colick, Ladder 49 generates so much goodwill toward its Baltimore firemen that you may find yourself ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris ChestnutDirected By: Jay Russell
With the knockout one-two punch of 1992's Reservoir Dogs and 1994's Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda PlummerDirected By: Quentin Tarantino
The sort of action thriller for which the phrase "high octane" could have been conceived, Swordfish stars John Travolta as Gabriel Shear, an enigmatic criminal operator who is as admired as he is feared. Using sexy sidekick Ginger (Halle Berry) as bait, he pressgangs Stanley Jobson, (Hugh Jackman) the world's greatest computer hacker, into helping him relieve the world banking system of a ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: John Travolta|Halle Berry|Hugh Jackman|Don CheadleDirected By: Dominic Sena
