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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)
Release Date: Oct 20, 1995
Running Time: 105 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Chili Palmer is a Miami loanshark who's sent to Los Angeles to collect on a gambling debt from film producer Harry Zimm. Harry's luck may have changed though; Chili is a big movie fan--even of the B-movie screamers that Harry churns out. Instead of breaking Harry's legs, Chili figures--what the hell--and pitches him an idea that could be the break of Harry's career. Chili soon discovers that loansharking was the perfect training ground for making movies... you have to be ruthless to make it in Hollywood.
cast + crew
Director
Chili Palmer
Harry Zimm
Karen Flores
Martin Weir
Ray "Bones" Barboni
Bo Catlett
Bear
Ronnie Wingate
Nicki
Leo DeVoe
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Producer
Producer
Co-Producer
Associate Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
December 8, 2000
Do me a favor. If some jerk tells you that Get Shorty, adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1990 best seller about a Miami loan shark who links up with the sharks of the movie business and fits right in, is another ripoff of Pulp Fiction, clobber him with a stack of Leonard's 32 crime novels, preferably hardcovers. Leonard, now 70, was writing primo pulp before Quentin Tarantino gurgled his first "fuck you." What really hurts is that most films cut from Leonard's gorgeously terse prose -- The Big…
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