Two of a Kind

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are reunited for this spirited musical comedy. Travolta plays Zack Melon, an inventor who resorts to theft in order to pay off his debts, while Newton-John is Debbie Wylder, a bank clerk who wants to be an actress. When the heavenly powers decide that the world needs a second flood to be cured of its ills, Zack and Debbie become the unlikely candidates from the human race who must perform a sacrifice for one another within one week to prove mankind’s worthiness., Four angels play matchmaker with two misfits – one a desperate inventor turned bank robber, the other an opportunistic bank teller. If they fail, God plans to flood the earth and start anew., John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John attempt to rekindle the box office sparks of Grease with this screwball fantasy comedy. The tale begins during a golf match in heaven among four angels –Charlie (Charles Durning), Earl (Scatman Crothers), Gonzales (Castulo Guerra), and Ruth (Beatrice Straight)– who have been in charge of heaven for the last twenty-five years. But their game is interrupted by God (voice of Gene Hackman), who has now returned to the office and doesn’t like what he sees down on earth. God wants to order up another flood and start all over again, but the angels persuade God to reconsider, reasoning that if a typical earth man can reform, it would prove that all mankind is capable of it. God agrees to the scheme and the typical man selected is Zack Melon (John Travolta) a failed inventor who, threatened by loan sharks, decides to hold up a bank. Zack points his gun at bank teller Debbie Wylder (Olivia Newton-John) and she gives him all of the money. But when Zack peers into the sack after the robbery, he sees that Debbie has substituted bank deposit slips for the cash and realizes that she has kept the money for herself. Zack tracks her down to reclaim his stolen money and the two fall in love.