Get Shorty
Description
"TWO THUMBS UP!"
— SISKEL & EBERT
Drug Smuggling. Racketeering. Loan Sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! Golden Globe Winner* John Travolta leads an all-star cast in the hysterical comedy that insists it doesn't take much to make it in the movies...just a background with the mob.
Loan shark Chili Palmer (Travolta) had done his time as a gangster. So when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), Chili talks tough...and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: he schmoozes film star Martin Weir (Danny DeVito), romances "B" movie queen Karen Flores (Rene Russo) and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurant in town. In fact, all would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and an angry mobster who won't leave him alone. But hey, this is Hollywood and no one said it would be easy!
With plenty of action and non-stop laughs, you get it all with Get Shorty — "the most flat-out enjoyable movie of the year" (NY Newsday).
*1995 Best Actor (Comedy)
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MGM/UA Home VideoBarcode
027616549334