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Get Shorty
Standard and Letterbox This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard`s 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who`s been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman)... This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard`s 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who`s been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), the maker of the stunning flops Grotesque and Slime People. But this is Harry`s lucky day, because Chili is also a film buff, and when he's done talking tough he starts pitching Harry a script idea. As everyone knows, the best background for the motion picture industry is the criminal underworld, and Chili is smoothly launched into the life of a producer: romancing a B-movie scream queen, schmoozing superstars, getting reservations in the hottest restaurants in town. However, Chili`s not the only mobster wanting to turn producer. It seems that a thug named Bo Catlett (Delroy Lindo), another of Harry`s lenders, also wants a piece of the action. Add in a group of angry drug smugglers and there is an abundance of double- and triple-crosses, as well as plenty of wisecracks and Hollywood insider jokes. GET SHORTY crosses the line of life imitating art--and vice versa--many times, including the real Ernest Chili Palmer (on whom the character is based) playing a Mafia henchman. Barry Sonnenfeld`s entertaining romp is a wild look at the celebrity life in Hollywood, featuring numerous cameos of stars playing themselves.
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