Get Shorty [1995 film]
by Barry Sonnenfeld (Director), Scott Frank (Screenwriter)
Chili Palmer (Drama Adaptations - audio & film — 2)
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Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.Tags
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2025 movie #146. 1995. Travolta is a Miami mob enforcer who goes to LA to collect a debt. While there he gets involved in producing a movie for a slock horror director (Hackman). Pretty funny crime picture with a great cast. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel.
Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history. Written by Joshua Davis
Surprisingly funny comedy about a very nice gangster who comes to Hollywood with an idea. ANd some money to collect.
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Barry Sonnenfeld is a filmmaker and writer who broke into the film industry as the cinematographer on the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and Miller's Crossing. He was the director of photography on Throw Momma from the Train, Big, When Harry Met Sally, and Misery. Sonnenfeld made his directorial debut with The Addams Family in 1991 show more and has gone on to direct a number of films, including Addams Family Values, Get Shortly, and the first three Men in Blacks. His television credits include Pushing Daisies, for which he won an Emmy, and Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. show less
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- Get Shorty [1995 film]
- Original publication date
- 1995
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- Get Shorty (1995 | IMDb)
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- Please distinguish between this 1995 motion picture adaptation by Barry Sonnenfeld and Leonard's original 1990 novel, Get Shorty. Thank you.
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