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The Travolta Collection (Saturday Night Fever / Grease / Urban Cowboy)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792185932
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792185935
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 08, 2002
Running Time: 362 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 06, 1980
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Editorial Review:
The Travolta DVD Collection collects three films from the beginning of John Travolta's career after he was plucked from the cast of the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. In Saturday Night Fever (1977), Travolta plays Tony Manero, a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn who works in a humble paint store and lives with his family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub. Director John Badham captures the electric connection between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony's ambitions to break out of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive" and "Night Fever." The Oscar®-nominated Travolta, in his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules.
In 1978, Travolta went on to Grease, an adaptation of the Broadway musical. With vibrant colors, unforgettably campy and catchy tunes (like "Greased Lightning," "Summer Nights," and "You're the One That I Want"), and fabulously choreographed musical numbers, the '50s-nostalgia story about the romantic dilemmas experienced by a group of graduating high school seniors remains fresh, fun, and incredibly imaginative. Travolta struts, swaggers, sings, and dances appropriately, while Olivia Newton-John's portrayal of virgin innocence is the only decent acting she's ever done.
Travolta traded in disco duds for a cowboy hat in Urban Cowboy (1980), a corny love story about a workingman who breaks up with his girlfriend (Debra Winger), then plays out their relationship's turmoil inside a huge honky-tonk called Gilley's. The story essentially parallels Saturday Night Fever in its blend of ordinary life, incomplete relationships, and personal pride channeled into niche stardom at a neighborhood club, and the film is really a time capsule on a lot of levels--notably Travolta's career and late-'70s Western kitsch.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - travolta
good story line and i like the music alot
Rating:  - how many times people can watch the same movies
Ok Saturday Night Fever is watchable if you got nothing else to do and it's on on the tv -- but buying it? And with those other 2 ... movies? Don't waste your money.
Rating:  - Travolta In His Prime
This box set culls together three of John Travolta's most popular and successful films into one nice and easy package for fans of the man.
Grease has finally made its debut on the DVD format. The movie is a long time favorite thanks to countless airings on television that constantly brought in new fans of the movie who weren't even born when the movie was released in 1978. Adapting the immensely popular Broadway show to the big screen brought forth some changes. The theater production had ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Overview of Early Travolta
John Travolta was truly on Fire back in the day.He made 3 Great Films in a row."Grease" was Slammin,Saturday Night Fever Made Him a House Hold Name&Urban Cowboy which still is Cool.He was in the zone.this is a solid Collection.Travolta was Cool back in the day.
Rating: - The best of "Young Travolta"
Who doesn't know these movies by now? I'm glad they picked these 3 for a box set. A perfect gift for the wife!
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