Get Shorty / Be Cool

Double Feature contains "Get Shorty" and "Be Cool." "Get Shorty" - Drug Smuggling. Racketeering. Loan Sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! Golden Globe winner John ...Travolta leads an all-star cast in "the most flat-out enjoyable movie of the year" (NY Newsday) - a hysterical comedy that insists it doesn't take much to make it in the movies...just a background with the mob. Loanshark Chili Palmer (Travolta) has done his time as a gangster. So when "business" takes him to L.A. to collect a debt from a down-and-out filmmaker (Gene Hackman), Chili jumps headfirst into the Hollywood scene: he schmoozes a film star (Danny DeVito), romances a "B" movie queen (Rene Russo) and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. In fact, all would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and an angry mobster who won't leave him alone. But hey, this is Hollywood and no one said it would be easy! "Be Cool" - Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast, including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Andre 3000, Steven Tyler and The Rock, and bursting with the hottest music in the biz, "Be Cool" is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul...and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry, he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec, poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!.Detailed info »« Brief info