Trailer
Plot summary
Ray "Bones" Barboni runs a loan-sharking operation in Miami, and Chili Palmer works for him. Ray sends Chili after Leo Devoe, a dry cleaner whose wife says he skipped the flight and took off with the settlement money. The search reaches a Las Vegas casino, where a casino boss points Chili toward a larger debtor: Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer of cheap horror pictures. Chili pitches his pursuit of Leo as a movie idea. Harry, who owes money to his investors, wants Chili's help, and those investors, Bo Catlett and Ronnie Wingate, run a limousine service as a front for drugs.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Get Shorty (1995)
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- Before John Travolta was cast as loan shark Chili Palmer, the role was offered to Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Michael Keaton, all of whom turned it down; director Barry Sonnenfeld also considered Samuel L. Jackson for Bo Catlett and weighed Steve Buscemi and Matthew McConaughey for Ronnie Wingate.
- Chili Palmer, played by John Travolta, was inspired by a real Miami loan shark and mob-connected figure named Ernest "Chili" Palmer, who appears in the film in a cameo.
