Get Shorty

Name: Get Shorty
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Crime
Released: 1995-10-20
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.496

★ 6,5 /10 (1,234 Votes)

1995 EN 105 min

Overview

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

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Release date

20/10/1995

Votes

1,234

Popularity

7.0

Attitude plays a part.

Genres

Comedy Thriller Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

105 min

Budget

$30,250,000

Revenue

$115,101,622

John Travolta

Chili Palmer

Gene Hackman

Harry Zimm

Rene Russo

Karen Flores

Danny DeVito

Martin Weir

Dennis Farina

Ray 'Bones' Barboni

Delroy Lindo

Bo Catlett

James Gandolfini

Bear

Jon Gries

Ronnie Wingate

Renee Props

Nicki

David Paymer

Leo Devoe

Martin Ferrero

Tommy Carlo

Miguel Sandoval

Mr. Escobar

Jacob Vargas

Yayo Portillo

Linda Hart

Fay Devoe

Bette Midler

Doris Saphron

Bobby Slayton

Dick Allen

Ron Karabatsos

Momo

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Alison Waddell

Bear's Daughter

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Amber Waddell

Bear's Daughter

John Cothran

Agent Curtis

Jack Conley

Agent Dunbar

Bernard Hocke

Agent Morgan

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Big Daddy Wayne

Ray Barboni's Bodyguard

Jay Montalvo

Big Guy with Escobar

Carlease Burke

Rental Car Attendant

Vito Scotti

Manager at Vesuvio's

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Rino Piccolo

Waiter at Vesuvio's

Alfred Dennis

Ed the Barber

Ralph Manza

Fred the Barber

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Zed Frizzelle

Kid at Lockers

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Harry Victor

Limo Driver with Sign

Patrick Breen

Resident Doctor

Barry Sonnenfeld

Doorman

Donna W. Scott

Screaming Woman

Rebeca Arthur

Las Vegas Waitress

Zack Phifer

Ivy Restaurant Maitre d'

Greg Goossen

Duke, Man at the Ivy

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Jeffrey Stephan

Bones' Buddy

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Ernest 'Chili' Palmer

Bones' Buddy

Leslie Bega

Vikki Vespa

Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel (uncredited)

Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall (uncredited)

Alex Rocco

Jimmy Capp

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I know that no movie is perfect but for my money Get Shorty is on my short list of films that come close. As good as the book is, I believe the movie improved upon it. I have watched it a few times, it being one of those movies we might invite a friend over to watch who hasn’t seen it. Plus it has surfaced a few times when I surf streaming channels and I usually stop to watch for a while, no matter where in the film I am. The ensemble cast (which includes a few lower echelon stars) is excellent and mostly look like they are having fun with it. There is violence, but not with buckets of blo…

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You know what, I really love Elmore Leonard, and a part of me feels that nearly any movie made from his works is going to come out as fresh, original, and worth watching. This is the rare exception. Here they took a classic Elmore Leonard plot and made it too Hollywood for its own good. And then they tried a bit hard to make it too much like a Pulp Fiction film, but with less bleak comedy and more slapstick comedy. You still have Leonard's unique originality...but the story has been raped and what's left is trash.

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Mobster "Chilli Palmer" (John Travolta) finds himself a bit exposed when his benefactor boss has an heart attack on his sixty-fifth birthday. Luckily for him, his new nemesis "Bones" still has an use for him - go to Hollywood and collect some gambling debts from "Harry" (Gene Hackman). This fellow produces the kind of horror films that would have made Roger Corman blush, but he's a bit smarter than the average bear so is soon trying to manoeuvre his new friend into a career in the movies. Not acting in them, but producing them - and suddenly "Chilli" realises that he already has quite a few of…

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