Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard&s 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer a Miami loan shark who&s been sent to LA to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman) the maker of the stunning flops " Grotesque" & " Slime People" But this is Harry&s lucky day because Chili is also a film buff & when he&s done talking tough he starts pitching Harry a script idea As everyone knows the best background for the motion picture industry is the criminal underworld & Chili is smoothly launched into the life of a producer romancing a B-movie scream queen schmoozing superstars getting reservations in the hottest restaurants in town However Chili&s not the only mobster wanting to turn producer It seems that a thug named Bo Catlett (Delroy Lindo) another of Harry&s lenders also wants a piece of the action Add in a group of angry drug smugglers & there is an abundance of double- & triple-crosses as well as plenty of wisecracks & Hollywood insider jokes GET SHORTY crosses the line of life imitating art--and vice versa--many times including the real Ernest " Chili" Palmer (on whom the character is based) playing a Mafia henchman Barry Sonnenfeld&s entertaining romp is a wild look at the celebrity life in Hollywood featuring numerous cameos of stars playing themselves