Movies about movies are my drug of choice
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Geregisseerd door Barry Sonnenfeld
An acclaimed, rewatchable comedy.
Chili Palmer herinnert mensen aan schulden bij maffia-figuren in Miami en komt via een aantal opdrachten in Hollywood omdat een regisseur zich niet aan zijn afspraken houdt. Hij raakt echter geïnteresseerd in het vak en wil het nieuwste project van de regisseur gaan produceren. De vriendin van de regisseur is de ex-vrouw van een populaire kleine acteur Martin Weir en deze trekt ook zijn interesse. Samen met haar wil hij Martin Weir overtuigen om de hoofdrol te gaan spelen.
Get Shorty draait op dit moment niet in de bioscoop.
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Movies about movies are my drug of choice
It is amazing how fast you can get cinephiles to love a loan shark who routinely threatens and beats people just by making him a fellow cinephile. Look at how excited Chili is to meet a stunt man! He knows the dialogue from Touch of Evil by heart! I can’t root against a guy like that.
63This film perfectly embodies its protagonist: John Travolta's Chili Palmer. A mobster who yearns to get into the movie business, it's so charming to watch a hardened guy follow his dreams, while collecting debts at the same time. The scene where he watches Touch of Evil, knowing every word of its cynical climax, distills so much of the character down to his essence. Overall, this is a fun mix of the post-modern wave ala Tarantino and the Hollywood satire, all while still preserving the Elmore Leonard feel. Maybe not as well as Jackie Brown or Out of Sight, but it's competent and breezy enough. A great cable movie.
A Miami loan shark travels to Los Angeles to collect an overdue debt from a low-budget horror movie producer and realizes that the film business shares many similarities with his own criminal life.
Barry Sonnenfeld directed this 1995 adaptation, drawing on his background in cinematography and his prior success with The Addams Family.