FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Get Shorty
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer89%as of 2026-01-16
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic81/100as of 2026-01-16
What it is
Get Shorty is a 1995 American gangster comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel. The film stars John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, Dennis Farina and Danny DeVito. It follows Chili Palmer (Travolta), a Miami mobster and loan shark who inadvertently gets involved with a Hollywood feature film production.
At a glance
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- English
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