What 1994 film starring John Travolta features a dance scene at a diner?

The 1994 film starring John Travolta that features a dance scene at a diner is Pulp Fiction. Travolta plays Vincent Vega, who takes Mia Wallace, played by Uma Thurman, to the retro Jack Rabbit Slim’s restaurant while her husband Marsellus Wallace is away.

The pair enter a twist contest and dance to Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell,” creating one of the film’s most recognizable scenes. Although many viewers connect Travolta’s performance to his role in Saturday Night Fever, director Quentin Tarantino identified the Madison dance sequence in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande à part as the key inspiration.

Pulp Fiction was written and directed by Tarantino and uses a deliberately nonlinear structure involving hitmen, a boxer, a mysterious briefcase, and intersecting criminal episodes. The film premiered at Cannes in 1994, where it won the Palme d’Or, and helped reestablish Travolta as a major star.