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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 8791
Released: March 26, 1997 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Golden Globe(r) winner* John Travolta leads an all-star cast in the hysterical comedy thatTime calls "smart, shrewdly crafted [and] hilarious!" Loan shark Chili Palmer (Travolta) is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), Chili talks tough...and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir (Danny DeVito), romances B-movie queen Karen Flores (Rene Russo) and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants intown. In fact, all would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglersand the angry mobster who won't leave him alone! *1996: Actor (Comedy)Get Shorty
Description of Get Shorty:
Hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 1995, this finely tuned black comedy sparked a renewed interest in movies based on books by prolific crime novelist Elmore Leonard, whose trademark combination of tight plotting and sharp humor is perfectly captured here. After the success of Pulp Fiction, John Travolta continued his meteoric comeback as Chili Palmer, a Mob "mechanic" whose latest assignment takes him to Los Angeles, where his fascination with the movie business turns into a new career as a would-be movie producer. He pitches ideas with a sleazy producer (Gene Hackman) and a major star (Danny DeVito), and also finds time to deal with a vengeful Mobster (Dennis Farina) and assorted Hollywood types (including Renee Russo and Delroy Lindo) who all want their piece of a tempting show-biz pie. The plot unfolds with enticing precision, but it's really Elmore's snappy dialogue--and the performances that bring it to life--that make this one of the best comedies of the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon
Get Shorty Reviews:
Don't Miss This! 
2009-12-03 - Hollywood has churned out so many mobster films, it's hard to dig through them all and find a really great one. This is one of the gems that has been too often disregarded. If you like Pulp Fiction, you're sure to enjoy this flawless, thoroughly entertaining film!
Get Shorty (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1995)-Really good!
2009-07-19 - I rate Get Shorty five stars as an enjoyable and very funny film about the gang, movie makers and what they may or may not have in common. John Travolta was the best of the ensemble including Danny DeVito, Gene Hackman and Uma Thurman. When I first saw this film in 1995 I told my wife that I understood calculus better than this plot. After watching a few minutes of this old film on TV I recently decided to see it again and give it a second chance. It was clear, very funny and I really enjoyed it on my second watch.
John Travolta plays a loan shark and collector who doesn't enjoy his line of work or hurting people. In fact, he would really like to make films, his greatest passion. That alone should be enough of a hook to get you to buy or rent this great film.
Better than Be Cool but not as good as Pulp Fiction 
2009-07-08 - It's had to say if Travolta was just caught up in the idea of being a gangster when he signed on for this movie but for whatever reason, this is one to add to the collection if you are a fan.
Both a comedy and a kinda-drama, Get Shorty is about a Mobster debt collector who finds himself in Hollywood to collect on a debt. His affinity for motion pictures gets him involved in a deal that requires some finess to pull off.
Good stuff all around...
3.5 stars out of 4
2009-06-10 - The Bottom Line:
A sharp satire of the movie industry on one hand and a completely engrossing story on the other, Get Shorty is fun, funny, fast-moving, and the type of movie that you want to watch again within days of seeing it the first time: see it if you haven't.
Get Shorty Is a classic comedy and a 5 star dvd
2009-05-27 - This is the first movie in the series of two the second one called be cool. I really enjoyed this one more than the second movie because I felt the actors were at their best in this movie. The actors if you look back 20 years later are some of the best we had today. The movie is rated R mainly because of the language in the movie but that is what makes this movie better than the second one they weren't afraid to push the envelope with the content in it and it made the movie a more real life situation. I will say the plot was decent but not great but when you got great actors sometimes you don't need the best plot. I tell you the first time I watched this movie I couldn't stop laughing and even now it's still funny. It's a good movie to pick up and check out everyone does there roll in the movie and I think it is a 5 star movie and still one of the best comedy's to this day.
