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The Travolta/Cage Project #44 Broken Arrow (1996)

What a rush!

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The Travolta/Cage Project #43: Kiss of Death (1995)

Nicolas Cage is Little Junior Brown, a charismatic maniac with a taste for blood in Barbet Schroeder’s tough, compelling remake of the classic 1947 Film Noir Kiss of Death.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #42 Get Shorty (1995)

Hey, you know what movie is great? Get Shorty. That movie is SO good.

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My World of Flops Racially Problematic Case File #168 The Travolta/Cage Project #41 White Man's Burden (1995)

John Travolta slathers on allegorical blackface to play a poor white man at the end of his rope in the muddled racial allegory White Man’s Burden, which imagines an alternate universe where the racial dynamic of our country has been reversed, with African-Americans in power and poor white folks the primary victim of racism.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #40 It Could Happen To You (1994)

Nicolas Cage is the world’s nicest, most honest cop in Andrew Bergman’s perfectly fine 1994 working class romantic comedy It Could Happen To You.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #39 Pulp Fiction (1994)

Hey, you know what movie is fucking great? Pulp Fiction.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #38 Guarding Tess (1994)

A buttoned-up, uncharacteristically restrained Nicolas Cage has wonderful comic chemistry with a characteristically terrific Shirley MacLaine in 1994’s Guarding Tess, a comedy-drama about the relationship between a prickly former first lady and the uptight Secret Service agent cursed with protecting her that’s terrific and surprising until a disastrous third-act shift into generic thriller territory.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #37 Deadfall (1993)

Nicolas Cage gives one of his most transcendently insane performances in Deadfall, an otherwise absolute dire hard-boiled crime movie co-written by the Green Book guy.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #35 Red Rock West (1993)

Nicolas Cage is a good man who finds himself in a bad situation in this masterful Neo-Noir from John Dahl.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #34 Shout (1991)

A charismatic stranger played by John Travolta turns a bunch of Southern white kids onto the life-affirming, liberating power of black music in Shout, a retro tribute to black music and black culture with no actual black characters.

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