Get Shorty

Name: Get Shorty
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Released: 1995

The Run Down.

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. (IMDB)

Release Year: 1995

Source: Novel ( Get Shorty)

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Written by: Scott Frank

Production: MGM

Starring: John Travolta, Danny DeVito

Runtime: 105 Minutes

One of the tactile pleasures of "Get Shorty" is the dialogue. John Travolta has said in interviews that he insisted the original Leonard dialogue be put back into the screenplay, which had been translated into flat, functional Hollywood Speak.

— Roger Ebert

The Book: Get Shorty

Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind—plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town with its dreammakers, glitter, hucksters, and liars—plus gorgeous, partially clad <em>would-be</em> starlets everywhere you look—seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste for the cinematic. Besides, Chili's got an idea for a killer movie—though it could very possibly kill him to get it made.

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