Get Shorty
Year: | 1995 |
Production Co: | Jersey Films |
Director: | Barry Sonnenfeld |
Writer: | Elmore Leonard |
Cast: | John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, David Paymer |
John Travolta is Chilli Palmer, a mobster who decides he wants to be in the movie business. Get the joke? He's already tailor made for a world where excess, egos, sharks and personal destruction are the order of the day.
Teaming up with fading director Harry (Hackman) and the beautiful Karen, Chilli only has to stay alive long enough to make it in the movies.
An interesting look at Hollywood from something of an inside angle, but like many of Travolta's projects, he thinks it's a lot cooler than it is (and not nearly as bad as the misfired sequel Be Cool).