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Get Shorty: Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. With John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito. A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
- (90K)
- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- 1995-10-20
Get Shorty is a film based on Elmore Leonard's novel about a Miami mobster who becomes a Hollywood producer. It stars John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito, and features a movie-within-a-movie plot.
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. He pitches a story to a producer, gets involved in a drug deal, and tries to sign a star for his film.
Get Shorty. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni (Dennis Farina), to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), a ...
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- Barry Sonnenfeld
- R
- John Travolta
Oct 20, 1995 · In the course of “Get Shorty’s” intricate plot, he follows a mob assignment from Miami to Brooklyn to Las Vegas to Los Angeles, where he finds himself sitting in the middle of the night in the living room of a sleaze merchant who produces movies with titles like “The Slime People.”
Jul 1, 2021 · Watch the official trailer of Get Shorty, a comedy film starring John Travolta as a mobster who tries to break into Hollywood. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel, the film also features Gene Hackman, Rene Russo and Danny DeVito.
- 3 min
- 84.6K
- Amazon MGM Studios
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Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films ...