

Get Shorty
Attitude plays a part.
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $30.3M
- Box office
- $115.1M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- miami, florida
- gambling
- gangster
- money
- murder
- travel
- mobster
- mafia
- business
- debt
- hollywood
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR20 Oct 1995
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1514 Mar 1996
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+26 Jan 1996
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical30 Nov 1995
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1227 Mar 1996
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1430 Nov 1995
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+7 Mar 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP26 Mar 1996
- PhysicalDVD14 Dec 1999
- PhysicalBlu-Ray15 Jun 2011
- Digital / OTT16Prime Video1 Nov 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1220 Feb 1996
GreeceGR
- Theatrical138 Mar 1996
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1621 Mar 1996
ItalyIT
- Theatrical8 Mar 1996
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Get Shorty was released on 20 October 1995.
Audience reviews
3- P10/10
Peter McGinn
10/23/2022
I know that no movie is perfect but for my money Get Shorty is on my short list of films that come close. As good as the book is, I believe the movie improved upon it. I have watched it a few times, it being one of those movies we might invite a friend over to watch who hasn’t seen it. Plus it has surfaced a few times when I surf streaming channels and I usually stop to watch for a while, no matter where in the film…
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/14/2023
You know what, I really love Elmore Leonard, and a part of me feels that nearly any movie made from his works is going to come out as fresh, original, and worth watching. This is the rare exception. Here they took a classic Elmore Leonard plot and made it too Hollywood for its own good. And then they tried a bit hard to make it too much like a Pulp Fiction film, but with less bleak comedy and more slapstick com…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
4/15/2024
Mobster "Chilli Palmer" (John Travolta) finds himself a bit exposed when his benefactor boss has an heart attack on his sixty-fifth birthday. Luckily for him, his new nemesis "Bones" still has an use for him - go to Hollywood and collect some gambling debts from "Harry" (Gene Hackman). This fellow produces the kind of horror films that would have made Roger Corman blush, but he's a bit smarter than the average bear s…
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