Get Shorty (1995)

Get Shorty (1995)

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Running time 105 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Crime

Tagline: The Mob Is Tough. But It's Nothing Like Show Business.

Chili Palmer is tired of the movie production business after being forced to make a useless sequel starring Martin Weir. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking a talent that the producer had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with a sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian mafia and a suburban rap-mogul producer & his thugs led by his bumbling relative. All turns out well when it is determined that the dead producers wife had at one time been the laundress for Aerosmith and making contact with Aerosmith leader Steven Tyler at a Lakers game, gets their protégé a duet with Tyler at an Aerosmith concert.

Cast:
John Travolta ... Chili Palmer
Gene Hackman ... Harry Zimm
Rene Russo ... Karen Flores
Danny DeVito ... Martin Weir
Dennis Farina ... Ray 'Bones' Barboni

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113161/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Shorty_(film)

Followed by: Be Cool (2005)