Be Cool

Name: Be Cool
Director: F. Gary Gray
Released: 2005

The Run Down.

Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer, Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit. (IMDB)

Release Year: 2005

Source: Novel ( Be Cool)

Director: F. Gary Gray

Written by: Peter Steinfeld

Production: MGM

Starring: John Travolta, Uma Thurman

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Be Cool becomes a classic species of bore: a self-referential movie with no self to refer to. One character after another, one scene after another, one cute line of dialogue after another, refers to another movie, a similar character, a contrasting image, or whatever. The movie is like a bureaucrat who keeps sending you to another office.

— Roger Ebert

The Book: Be Cool

After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned-Hollywood producer, Chili Palmer is desperate for another hit . . . of the celluloid sort. And when a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they're power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul's midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, and betrayal—all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer's working on another movie. And that's when people tend to die.

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