Get Shorty (1995)

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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 witht the mob. Loanshark Chili Palmer (Travolta) has done his time as a gangster. So when "business" takes him to Los Angeles 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 (DeVito), romances "B" movie queen Karen Flores (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! *1995 Best Actor (Comedy)