john travolta top 10 movies

1.Grease (1978)

  7.1/10 

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? (110 mins.)

Director: Randal Kleiser

Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway

2.Swordfish (2001)

  6.4/10 

A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hacker (who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money. (99 mins.)

Director: Dominic Sena

Stars: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle

3.Face/Off (1997)

  7.3/10 

A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization. (138 mins.)

Director: John Woo

Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola

4.The Punisher (2004)

  6.3/10 

An undercover FBI agent becomes a vigilante assassin and sets out to unleash vengeance upon the corrupt businessman who slew his family. (124 mins.)

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh

Stars: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Samantha Mathis, Laura Harring

5.Look Who's Talking (1989)

  5.7/10 

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. (93 mins.)

Director: Amy Heckerling

Stars: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal

6.Ladder 49 (2004)

  6.4/10 

Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures... (115 mins.)

Director: Jay Russell

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick

7.The General's Daughter (1999)

  6.1/10 

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point. (116 mins.)

Director: Simon West

Stars: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton

8.The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

  6.4/10 

Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. (106 mins.)

Director: Tony Scott

Stars: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj

9.From Paris with Love (2010)

  6.4/10 

In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. (92 mins.)

Director: Pierre Morel

Stars: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden

10.Pulp Fiction (1994)

  9/10 

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. (154 mins.)

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis

Nicolas Cage biography

Synopsis

Born in California on January 7, 1964, Nicolas Cage fell in love with acting during a summer class at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He got his start in teenage comedies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and went on to play a wide variety of roles in such films as Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, and Con Air. He received an Academy Award for his role in 1995'sLeaving Las Vegas.

QUOTES

"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."

– Nicolas Cage

Early Life 

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California, to choreographer Joy Vogelsang and literature professor August Coppola. Cage has two older brothers, Marc and Christopher. He is the nephew of film directorFrancis Ford Coppola and, as a youth, visited his uncle often at his San Francisco home.

At age 15, Cage fell in love with acting during a summer class at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He dropped out of Beverly Hills High School to pursue an acting career, making his debut on television in 1981. He changed his name to Nicolas Cage as a way to separate his identity from that of his famous uncle. He chose the name Cage as a tribute to comic-book superhero Luke Cage.

Cage is known for his edgy, intense personality both on and off the screen, as well as for his passion for method acting. He is said to have had two teeth pulled for his role in Birdy (1984), slashed his arm for Racing With the Moon (1984) and swallowed a live cockroach for Vampire's Kiss (1992). He is also alleged to have destroyed a street vendor's remote-controlled car in a fit of rage while preparing for his role as a mobster in The Cotton Club (1984).

Film Debut

Cage got his start in teenage comedies, with his debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, also featuring Sean Penn), followed by a leading role as a punk rocker in Valley Girl (1983). Francis Ford Coppola gave him a small role in his critically acclaimed Rumble Fish (1983). His first serious dramatic role was opposite Matthew Modine in Birdy (1984). This was followed by Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), the Coen Brothers' comedy Raising Arizona(1987), Moonstruck (1987, starring Cher), David Lynch's bizarreWild at Heart (1990), Vampire's Kiss (1992) and the comedyHoneymoon in Vegas (1992).

By 1994, Cage was valued at about $4 million per picture, but agreed to star in Mike Figgis's Leaving Las Vegas (1995) for only $240,000 because of the strength of the role. It paid off- his portrayal of the alcoholic screenwriter earned him a Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Later Roles

Since 1995, Cage has made a series of action thrillers, including The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), John Woo's Face/Off (1997, opposite John Travolta), and Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes (1998). In 1998, he starred in the romantic City of Angels with Meg Ryan. After returning to the action genre with the poorly-rated 8MM and headlining Martin Scorsese's dark Bringing Out the Dead in 1999, Cage reportedly received a $20 million paycheck for the action extravaganza Gone in 60 Seconds, costarring Angelina Jolie.

Cage played a more traditional romantic lead in his next two movies, the Christmas 2000 release The Family Man and the World War II-era epic Captain Corelli's Mandolin, starring the much-in-demand actress and Spanish import Penelope Cruz. In December 2002, Cage launched his directorial debut, the $5 million independent film Sonny,

Personal Lifeabout a male gigolo who struggles to free himself from his madam mother. Cage also starred inAdaptation, playing both ill-tempered screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and twin brother Donald. Upcoming projects include costarring with Chow Yun-Fat in director John Woo's action Western Land of Destiny and starring and co-producing Dead to Rights, a movie version of the hugely popular video game. The busy actor also starred in director Jon Turteltaub's 2004 holiday blockbuster National Treasure, playing an archaeologist-historian who believes a treasure map is hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence.

Cage's relationship with Kristina Fulton, a model, lasted several years, producing a son, Weston Coppola Cage, born in 1992. Cage has been married three times: The first to actress Patricia Arquette in 1995; the second was a short-lived marriage to Lisa-Marie Presley, the only daughter of the late King of Rock and Roll, in August 2002- and most recently, he wed his girlfriend, 20-year-old former waitress Alice Kim, at a private ranch in Northern California in August 2004. The couple announced the birth of a son, Kal-el Coppola Cage, on October 3, 2005.

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