Get Shorty R
The mob is tough, but it’s nothing like show business.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 5, 2015
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo & Danny DeVito | |
Performer: | Delroy Lindo, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Martin Ferrero, Jacob Vargas & David Paymer | |
Directed by | Barry Sonnenfeld | |
Edited by | Jim Miller | |
Screenplay by | Scott Frank | |
Composition by | John Lurie | |
Story by | Elmore Leonard | |
Cameo: | Harvey Keitel, Bette Midler, Alex Rocco & Penny Marshall | |
Produced by | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg & Stacey Sher | |
Director of Photography: | Donald Peterman | |
Executive Production by | Barry Sonnenfeld |
Entertainment Reviews:
...GET SHORTY is certainly entertaining...
Sight and Sound
...Elmore Leonard's deliciously profane dialogue gives a great cast, led by John Travolta, a feast to dine upon....GET SHORTY gets it wonderfully right...
Rolling Stone
...GET SHORTY is good, sly fun. With John Travolta putting on a dazzling demonstration of what being a movie star is all about...
Variety
It's terrifically entertaining.
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CNN.com
Rating: A --
A pleasing satire on gangsters, hustlers and Hollywood.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...All the elements finally jelled, goosed by a terrific John Travolta performance... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
This Hollywood is the one we want to believe exists: no film school snots here, no MBA's, no dock-worker philosophers-turned-screenwriters. Just a town full of second-rate swindlers where a clear-eyed racketeer can keep his eye on the ball and rise.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
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.
Keywords:
Organized Crime
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Romance
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Scams And Cons
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Recommended
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Showbiz
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
Product Info
- UPC: 883904331162
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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