1995 · crime · comedy · satire
Get Shorty
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld1h 45m1995
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
Our read: Get Shorty (1995) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded crime · comedy · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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