John Travolta
Author
Series
Hollywood's Stories volume 8
Language
English
Description
John Travolta began his career as Vinny on "Welcome Back Kotter." The legend then went on to star in some of Hollywood's greatest success stories. Unfortunately, with success often follows scrutiny and scandal, and both found Travolta in spades. Throughout it all, though, and after more than four decades, Travolta continues a career that has experienced both the zeniths and the nadirs of fame.
4) Blow Out
Author
Language
English
Description
John Travolta ("Get Shorty") gives an outstanding performance as a B-movie sound-effects editor who inadvertently records the car crash of a presidential hopeful. But the more he listens to his recording, the more he come to believe that the "accident" was hardly that, but, rather, an act of political assassination. With the help of an eyewitness (Nancy Allen, "RoboCop"), Travolta attempts to unravel the web that has been unwittingly spun around him...
6) Face/Off
Author
Language
English
Description
As a result of a new medical technique, an agent is able to surgically take on the identical appearance of a criminal in order to take down his terrorist organization.
7) Pulp Fiction
Author
Language
English
Description
Writer/director Quentin Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters – including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife and a desperate prizefighter – in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating film that both thrills and amuses.
10) Staying Alive
Author
Language
English
Description
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Staying Alive is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
11) Lucky Numbers
Author
Language
English
Description
John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow make a "high-energy comedy team" in this side-splittingly funny comedy inspired by a real-life scam to win the Pennsylvania lottery. Travolta "is truly irresistible" as Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme - and fast. With his greedy girlfriend (Lisa Kudrow) -...
13) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
14) Paradise city
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When bounty hunter Ian Swan is shot and presumed dead after disappearing in Maui waters, Swan's son, Ryan, his ex-partner, and a local detective set out to find his killers. After being threatened by a ruthless power broker, it appears Ryan and his team are out of options, until an excursion to the closely guarded island community of Paradise City unites them with an unforeseen ally.
15) Carrie
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The story of a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. When pushed too far, she becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse causing all hell to break loose.
16) Grease
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers learn about life and love in their 1950's high school.
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When the passengers of a subway train are taken hostage for ransom, New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber must use his vast knowledge of the subway system to try to outwit the criminal mastermind behind the crime.
18) Mad city
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Sam is a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Max is a local TV reporter taken hostage with schoolchildren when Sam locks down the museum. It's a desperate move for Sam, a career move for Max. He's on the inside of a live exclusive. Now he must give Sam's story a heroic spin, keep a cynical network anchor at bay and above all, keep America watching. And as Max pulls the strings, the stakes grow higher, darker,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A low-ranking intelligence operative working in the office of the U.S. ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is a single working mom who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James (John Travolta), a cab driver turned babysitter who Mollie won't even consider. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.