Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast including John Travolta Uma Thurman Andre 3000 Steven Tyler and The Rock and bursting with the hottest music in the biz Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul... and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot... more than a tune! [show more]
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John Travolta returns as Chili Palmer in the long awaited follow-up to the blockbuster hit 'Get Shorty' (1995). Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over Athens' record company, Nothing to Lose Records, and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman). Edie is an experienced hand in record production, and together she and Chili spot what would seem to be the ideal act for their label - Linda Moon (Christina Milian), a beautiful young woman with a powerhouse voice. Linda is stuck, however, in a going-nowhere R&B trio managed by the monumentally sleazy Raji (Vince Vaughn). Chili isn't much concerned about Linda's contract with Raji, but Raji certainly is, and the manager soon takes out a contract on Chili with the same Russian hoods who killed Tommy. Soon Chili is facing all the action he can handle between the Russian gunmen, a music mogul named Nick Carr (Harvey Keitel) who wants Chili to stay out of the business, and Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer), a successful hip-hop producer who wants Chili to pay him the 300,000 dollars he is owed by Tommy.
In this sequel to the 1995 mobster comedy GET SHORTY John Travolta returns as Chili Palmer a smooth-talking loan shark turned successful movie producer But he's tired of the film industry and so he sets his sights on the music business teaming up with music producer Edie (Uma Thurman) the widow of a recently murdered colleague Seeing great potential in an up-and-coming singer named Linda Moon (Christina Milian) Chili makes it his goal to rescue the young talent from her sleazy manager Raji (Vince Vaughn) and make her a star But it doesn't take long for Chili to realize that in the music industry not everybody plays by the rules Combining organised crime and record label know-how as they infiltrate the music industry Chili and Edie (Thurman) must free Moon from her contract with Raji and record label exec Nick Carr (Harvey Keitel) while fending off the Russian mafia and a whole slew of enemies played by Cedric the Entertainer and Andre Benjamin (of OutKast) among others Director F Gary Gray casts The Rock against type as Raji's flamboyant aspiring-actor bodyguard Elliot In fact the film's most humorous scene might be when Elliot breaks into Edie's home in order to show Chili a monologue from the film BRING IT ON Overall the film's tone is a self-referential one established in the first five minutes by Chili's complaints over the nature of sequels and the PG-13 rating system itself From here on out the film's humour becomes more and more dependent on the audiences knowledge of all things pop culture with a dance scene between Travolta and Thurman recalling their memorable pairing in PULP FICTION
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