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===1990s === [[File:John Travolta 1997.jpg|thumb|upright|Travolta in 1997]] Travolta subsequently starred in ''[[Look Who's Talking Too]]'' (1990) and ''[[Look Who's Talking Now]]'' (1993), but it was not until he played against type as [[Vincent Vega]] in [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s hit ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (1994), with [[Samuel L. Jackson]], for which he received an [[Academy Award]] nomination, that his career was revived.<ref name=tca/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/10/15/PK67911.DTL&type=printable |title=Making Movies With the Mob / John Travolta stars as gangster producer in Elmore Leonard's 'Get Shorty' |publisher=Sfgate.com |date=October 15, 1995 |access-date=August 26, 2009 | first=Mick | last=Lasalle}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=James |first=Caryn |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03EEDB1E3EF931A35751C1A9629C8B63 |title=CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; As Praise Flows, Travolta Awaits His 3rd Comeback |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 2, 2004 |access-date=August 26, 2009}}</ref> It was Travolta's third film alongside [[Bruce Willis]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Anthony |date=2021-05-14 |title=Bruce Willis & John Travolta To Reteam For First Time Since 'Pulp Fiction' In 'Paradise City'; Praya Lundberg Also Stars |url=https://deadline.com/2021/05/bruce-willis-john-travolta-paradise-city-pulp-fiction-reteam-praya-lundberg-1234756739/ |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Deadline}}</ref> The movie shifted him back onto the [[A-list]] and notable roles that followed include a movie-buff [[loan shark]] in ''[[Get Shorty (film)|Get Shorty]]'' (1995), a factory worker in ''[[White Man's Burden (film)|White Man's Burden]]'' (1995), a corrupt U.S. Air Force pilot in ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'' (1996), an everyman with extraordinary powers in ''[[Phenomenon (film)|Phenomenon]]'' (1996), an [[Michael (archangel)|archangel]] in ''[[Michael (1996 film)|Michael]]'' (1996), an FBI agent and terrorist in ''[[Face/Off]]'' (1997), a desperate attorney in ''[[A Civil Action (film)|A Civil Action]]'' (1998), a [[Bill Clinton]]βesque presidential candidate in ''[[Primary Colors (film)|Primary Colors]]'' (1998),<ref name=tca/> and a military investigator in ''[[The General's Daughter (film)|The General's Daughter]]'' (1999).
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