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Jersey Films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Chili Palmer Collection
Attitude plays a part.
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
CinemaSerf
Apr 15, 2024 · via TMDB
Mobster "Chilli Palmer" (John Travolta) finds himself a bit exposed when his benefactor boss has an heart attack on his sixty-fifth birthday. Luckily for him, his new nemesis "Bones" still has an use for him - go to Hollywood and collect some gambling debts from "Harry" (Gene Hackman). This fellow produces the kind of horror films that would have made Roger Corman blush, but he's a bit smarter than the average bear so is soon trying to manoeuvre his new friend into a career in the movies. Not acting in them, but producing them - and suddenly "Chilli" realises that he already has quite a few of the skills necessary to coax, cajole and plain old extort from just about everyone to fund a vehicle for "Karen" (Rene Russo). They use established star "Weir" (Danny DeVito) as a consultant and try to con the dapper drug-peddling "Catlett" (Delroy Lindo) out of half a million dollars to pay the bills - well someone's bills. Travolta is on good form here with a tongue in cheek, less-is-more, style of delivery but it's really Hackman who steals the show. His sharp and opportunistic character pokes fun at the film industry from funding to casting to filming in quite an entertaining fashion, and Russo complements well as the high maintenance woman who used to date "Weir". Who hasn't dated who in this town? The joke does wear a bit thin after a while, but for the most part it's a charismatic affair with a cast gelling well to deliver this amiable adaptation of the Elmore Leonard send up of the mob and the movies. It's dated a bit, but still worth a watch.
GenerationofSwine
Jan 14, 2023 · via TMDB
You know what, I really love Elmore Leonard, and a part of me feels that nearly any movie made from his works is going to come out as fresh, original, and worth watching. This is the rare exception. Here they took a classic Elmore Leonard plot and made it too Hollywood for its own good. And then they tried a bit hard to make it too much like a Pulp Fiction film, but with less bleak comedy and more slapstick comedy. You still have Leonard's unique originality...but the story has been raped and what's left is trash.
Peter McGinn
Oct 23, 2022 · via TMDB
I know that no movie is perfect but for my money Get Shorty is on my short list of films that come close. As good as the book is, I believe the movie improved upon it. I have watched it a few times, it being one of those movies we might invite a friend over to watch who hasn’t seen it. Plus it has surfaced a few times when I surf streaming channels and I usually stop to watch for a while, no matter where in the film I am. The ensemble cast (which includes a few lower echelon stars) is excellent and mostly look like they are having fun with it. There is violence, but not with buckets of blood. It almost seems like cartoonish violence. And of course wit and humor run through it, with a bit of satire on Hollywood thrown in. I just found out today that a sequel was made called Be Cool and a British tv series based on the book, but I like this one so much I won't even risk disappointment by watching those other entries.
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John Travolta
Chili Palmer
Gene Hackman
Harry Zimm
Rene Russo
Karen Flores
Danny DeVito
Martin Weir
Dennis Farina
Ray 'Bones' Barboni
Delroy Lindo
Bo Catlett
James Gandolfini
Bear
Jon Gries
Ronnie Wingate
Renee Props
Nicki
David Paymer
Leo Devoe
Martin Ferrero
Tommy Carlo
Miguel Sandoval
Mr. Escobar
Jacob Vargas
Yayo Portillo
Linda Hart
Fay Devoe
Bette Midler
Doris Saphron
Bobby Slayton
Dick Allen
Ron Karabatsos
Momo
John Cothran
Agent Curtis
Jack Conley
Agent Dunbar
Bernard Hocke
Agent Morgan
Jay Montalvo
Big Guy with Escobar
Carlease Burke
Rental Car Attendant
Vito Scotti
Manager at Vesuvio's
Alfred Dennis
Ed the Barber
Ralph Manza
Fred the Barber
Patrick Breen
Resident Doctor
Barry Sonnenfeld
Doorman
Donna W. Scott
Screaming Woman
Rebeca Arthur
Las Vegas Waitress
Zack Phifer
Ivy Restaurant Maitre d'
Greg Goossen
Duke, Man at the Ivy
Leslie Bega
Vikki Vespa
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (uncredited)
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall (uncredited)
Alex Rocco
Jimmy Capp
Donald Peterman
Director of Photography
Brian Smrz
Stunt Coordinator
Carl Ciarfalio
Stunts
Dane Farwell
Stunts
Doc Duhame
Stunts
Jophery C. Brown
Stunts
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
Debra Zane
Casting
Barry Sonnenfeld
Executive Producer
Danny DeVito
Producer
Michael Shamberg
Producer
Stacey Sher
Producer
John Lurie
Original Music Composer
Lee Dichter
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Skip Lievsay
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