Primary Colors

…and wrote the script for Primary Colors (1998), both of which Nichols directed; she won an Oscar nomination for the latter. She also acted in Allen’s comedy Small Time Crooks (2000).

…the Oscar-nominated script for Nichols’s Primary Colors (1998), an adaptation of the best-selling political novel by an anonymous writer (later revealed to be journalist Joe Klein). John Travolta was wholly convincing as the charismatic Bill Clintonesque presidential candidate who is always a step away from a sex scandal. Also notable…

…an idealistic political operative, in Primary Colors (1998).

…a schoolteacher in Mike Nichols’s Primary Colors (1998), a dramedy starring John Travolta as a Bill Clinton-type politician. Her character has a memorable fall, and that scene reportedly led to Janney’s being cast as C.J. Cregg in The West Wing (1999–2006). Created by Aaron Sorkin, the drama is a behind-the-scenes…

… (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Primary Colors (1998), The Safety of Objects (2001), Two Weeks Notice (2002), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Ira & Abby (2006), Reign Over Me (2007), The Back-up Plan (2010), and Before I Go (2021). He also made scores

…roles in such films as Primary Colors (1998), a film about the rise of a charismatic Southern politician to the White House (adapted from the 1996 novel of the same name and based on the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton); Armageddon (1998), a large-budget adventure film in which a group…

Shorty (1995), Face/Off (1997), Primary Colors (1998), Swordfish (2001), and Hairspray (2007). In 2016 he appeared as attorney Robert Shapiro in the TV miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson. Travolta acted steadily through the rest of the decade, starring in such movies as Gotti (2018) and The Fanatic