John Travolta
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Oct 20, 1995 · 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.
- (87K)
- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- 1995-10-20
Oct 20, 1995 · It comes with our knowledge that everyone in the movie will say more than they have to, because "Get Shorty" is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, that grandmaster of low-life dialogue. Chili ( John Travolta) is a man who knows his way around organized crime but dreams of the movies. In the course of "Get Shorty's" intricate plot, he follows a ...
Now, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna hurt you. Now you got three hundred and ten thousand in the bag here. I'm gonna take the three hundred thousand that you scammed from the airline, and then the ten that's left over, I'm gonna borrow from you and pay back at another time. Leo : Wait, you take all my money, but you're borrowing part of it ...
Chilli Palmer (John Travolta) is a loan shark in Miami. When his New York based boss dies of a heart attack, Palmer finds himself working for Ray 'Bones' Barboni (Dennis Farina) an old rival who hates, Palmer. Bones is upset with Palmer for not collecting a loan from dry cleaner Leo Devoe (David Paymer) who was killed in an airliner crash.
English. Budget. $30 million [2] Box office. $115.1 million [3] Get Shorty is a 1995 American gangster comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard 's novel of the same name. [4] The film stars John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, Dennis Farina, and Danny DeVito.
- $30 million
- John Lurie
- October 20, 1995
Jul 17, 2013 · Chili is ordered to collect a $18,000 debt from a dry-cleaner named Leo Devoe ( David Paymer ), who was allegedly dead due to an unfortunate plane crash. Through a cordial talk with Leo's wife, Chili quickly finds that Leo has a $300,000 life insurance on himself and he is very much alive and hiding somewhere with the insurance money.
Special kudos go to David Paymer for his story-within-the-story turn as the dry cleaner who fakes his death in a plane crash and flees to L.A. with 300 grand in mob money, sweating all the way. Sonnenfeld doesn’t get enough credit as an actor’s director, but the scene where Travolta shows DeVito how to play a shylock is so perfectly ...
