Get Shorty (Blu-ray) R
The mob is tough, but it’s nothing like show business.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 29, 2011
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman & Danny DeVito | |
Performer: | Delroy Lindo, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Martin Ferrero, Jacob Vargas & David Paymer | |
Directed by | Barry Sonnenfeld | |
Screenplay by | Scott Frank | |
Story by | Elmore Leonard | |
Produced by | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg & Stacey Sher | |
Executive Production by | Barry Sonnenfeld |
Entertainment Reviews:
Like the Elmore Leonard novel it adapts, Get Shorty is fast, very funny, minorly caustic, and about as consequential and lasting as the movies Chili himself tries to green-light.
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Spin
...All the elements finally jelled, goosed by a terrific John Travolta performance... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/4 --
Get Shorty - for all its critical and commercial acclaim - has never received its due as one of the funniest Hollywood films of modern times.
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Film Frenzy
...Elmore Leonard's deliciously profane dialogue gives a great cast, led by John Travolta, a feast to dine upon....GET SHORTY gets it wonderfully right...
Rolling Stone
Everything clicks.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
This Hollywood is the one we want to believe exists: no film school snots here, no MBA's, no dock-worker philosophers-turned-screenwriters. Just a town full of second-rate swindlers where a clear-eyed racketeer can keep his eye on the ball and rise.
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TV Guide
...Sizzling supporting performances by Dennis Farina and Delroy Lindo....[Travolta] oozes cool without breaking a sweat... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Product Description:
This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who's been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), the maker of the stunning flops "Grotesque" and "Slime People." But this is Harry's lucky day, because Chili is also a film buff, and when he's done talking tough he starts pitching Harry a script idea. As everyone knows, the best background for the motion picture industry is the criminal underworld, and Chili is smoothly launched into the life of a producer: romancing a B-movie scream queen, schmoozing superstars, getting reservations in the hottest restaurants in town. However, Chili's not the only mobster wanting to turn producer. It seems that a thug named Bo Catlett (Delroy Lindo), another of Harry's lenders, also wants a piece of the action. Add in a group of angry drug smugglers and there is an abundance of double- and triple-crosses, as well as plenty of wisecracks and Hollywood insider jokes. GET SHORTY crosses the line of life imitating art--and vice versa--many times, including the real Ernest "Chili" Palmer (on whom the character is based) playing a Mafia henchman. Barry Sonnenfeld's entertaining romp is a wild look at the celebrity life in Hollywood, featuring numerous cameos of stars playing themselves.
Keywords:
Organized Crime
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Romance
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Scams And Cons
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Recommended
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Showbiz
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Theatrical Release
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Crime