Be Cool
2005 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer in Be Cool, a sequel to the comedy smash Get Shorty. This time, Chili becomes a different kind of “hit” man – he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music business. When a friend is offed while they’re at lunch, Chili takes the opportunity to visit the guy’s wife, Edie (Thurman), and pitch himself as her new business partner at an independent record label. With a promising young pop-star-in-training as his protégé (Milian), Chili has to juggle her faux-urban manager (Vaughn), his gay, wannabe-actor bodyguard (The Rock), Russian mobsters, and an eloquent gangsta music producer (Cedric) to save the label and land a hit – and keep from getting popped himself.
Direction F. Gary Gray
Cast John Travolta · Uma Thurman · Vince Vaughn · Harvey Keitel · Dwayne Johnson · Cedric the Entertainer · André Benjamin · Christina Milian · Robert Pastorelli · Paul Adelstein · Alex Kubik · Debi Mazar · Gregory Alan Williams · Steven Tyler · Danny DeVito · James Woods · Seth Green · Nicole Scherzinger · Fergie · The Black Eyed Peas
Soundtrack John Powell
Screenplay Peter Steinfeld · Elmore Leonard
Cinematography Jeffrey L. Kimball
Original title Be Cool
5.1
10K votes (FilmAffinity)
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