BE COOL (UMD/PSP/WS 1.78 ANAMORPHIC/2.0/ENG-SUB/FR-BOTH) DVD

Be Cool
Underworld hipster Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (once again played by John 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. Be Cool also features appearances by The Rock as a gay Samoan bodyguard, Andre Benjamin (aka Andre 3000 from the hip-hop duo Outkast) as a rapper who isn't very good with a gun, and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler as himself. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast John Travolta as Chili Palmer Uma Thurman as Edie Athens Vince Vaughn as Raji Cedric the Entertainer as Sin La Salle André Benjamin as Dabu Steven Tyler as Himself Robert Pastorelli as Joe Loop Christina Milian as Linda Moon Paul Adelstein as Hy Gordon Debi Mazar as Marla Greg Alan Williams as Darryl Harvey Keitel as Nick Carr The Rock as Elliot Wilhelm Danny DeVito as Martin Weir James Woods as Tommy Athens

Crew Lauren Polizzi - Art Director Dan Webster - Supervising Art Director Linda Rae Favila - Associate Producer Anson Downes - Associate Producer Andy Gose - Associate Producer Sheila Jaffe - Casting Georgianne Walken - Casting Fatima Robinson - Choreography Mark Bridges - Costume Designer J. Michael Haynie - First Assistant Director F. Gary Gray - Director Sheldon Kahn - Editor Christopher Rouse - Editor Michael Siegel - Executive Producer F. Gary Gray - Executive Producer Elmore Leonard - Executive Producer John Powell - Composer (Music Score) Mary Ramos - Musical Direction/Supervision Michael Corenblith - Production Designer Jeffrey Kimball - Cinematographer Danny DeVito - Producer Stacey Sher - Producer Michael Shamberg - Producer David Nicksay - Producer Doug Arnold - Sound/Sound Designer Kurt Bryant - Stunts Coordinator Peter Steinfeld - Screenwriter Mark Freund - Visual Effects Supervisor Victor Ennis - Supervising Sound Editor Mark Stoeckinger - Supervising Sound Editor Denise Pizzini - Set Decorator Elmore Leonard - Book Author

Be Cool
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(no awards)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: Additional Features: Full-length movie Widescreen presentation DVD picture quality DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1: Alternate Wide Screen MPAA Rating: PG13 DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 120 min