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Get Shorty

Loanshark Chili Palmer 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, he jumps headfirst into the Hollywood scene. All would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and gangsters...

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Corporate Authors: Jersey Films (film production company.)
Other Authors: DeVito, Danny (Actor), Frank, Scott, 1960- (Screenwriter), Travolta, John, 1954- (Actor), Hackman, Gene (Actor), Russo, Rene (Actor), Farina, Dennis, 1944-2013 (Actor), Gandolfini, James (Actor), Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013.
Format: Videos DVD
Language: English
French
Spanish
Published: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [1998]
Subjects:
Gangsters > United States > Drama.
Motion picture producers and directors > California > Los Angeles > Drama.
Film adaptations.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Summary: Loanshark Chili Palmer 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, he jumps headfirst into the Hollywood scene. All would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
Item Description: Originally produced as motion picture in 1995.
Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard.
Includes original theatrical trailer.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet ([8] pages ; 19 cm)
Format: DVD, region 1, NTSC, double-sided, widescreen and full screen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English or French) or stereo. (Spanish).
Audience: MPAA rating: R; CHV rating: 14A.
Awards: Golden Globes, 1996: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Travolta)
Production Credits: Director of photography, Don Peterman ; production design, Peter Larkin ; editor, Jim Miller ; music, John Lurie.
ISBN: 0792833279
9780792833277
0792863453
9780792863458
Author Notes: Television and motion picture actor John Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey on February 18, 1954. He dropped out of school when he was 16 to become an actor.

Travolta starred as Vinnie Barbarino in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, and has appeared in a wide array of movies, including Carrie, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Saturday Night Fever (for which he received an Oscar nomination), Grease, Urban Cowboy, Look Who's Talking, Pulp Fiction, Face\Off, A Civil Action and The General's Daughter.

An avid aviation enthusiast, in 1997 he published a book titled Propeller One-Way Night Coach.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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