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Be Cool, 2005

Be Cool

English, Russian

USA

Rating:5.6
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Profile of Be Cool

The mood of Be Cool is humorous, clever, and feel good. The plot centers around showbiz, cons and scams, and artists and showbiz. It is a comedy, independent, and crime movie. Stylistically, Be Cool features an all-star cast and has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is realistic. It happens in contemporary times. Be Cool is based on a book. Note that it includes sexual content, profanity, and violent content.

Summary of Be Cool

In this sequel to the 1995 mobster comedy GET SHORTY, John Travolta returns as Chili Palmer, a smooth-talking loanshark 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 organized 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 humor 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.

Details

Language: English, Russian
Country: USA
Release date: 4 March 2005
Runtime: 118 min

Cast and Crew

Vince Vaughn as Raji in Be Cool
Vince Vaughn

as Raji

John Travolta as Chili Palmer in Be Cool
John Travolta

as Chili Palmer

Uma Thurman as Edie Athens in Be Cool
Uma Thurman

as Edie Athens

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Critics Reviews

Entertainment Weekly
The hell of it is, Be Cool is tepid entertainment that could be cool if it spent less time entertaining us as if we were demanding a definition of rhythm.
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  • by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
USA Today
Despite a cast and production that seem to promise one of the year's first movies of any note, Cool never translates its promo-photo flashiness into authenticity on screen.
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  • by: Mike Clark

Users Reviews

Dreadful. Everything that was smart and cool and fun about Get Shorty -- this movie is not. Avoid it at all costs. Yes, it's really that bad.
  • 30.April.2011
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  • by: Brad
  • Brad rated this movie0/10
Be Cool, a sequel to the very funny Get Shorty, follows Chili Palmer (John Travolta) as he gets bored of the movie industry in Hollywood and decides to try his shylock tactics on the music business. He rescues a very talented singer, Linda Moon...
  • 23.March.2009
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  • by: Jason
  • Jason rated this movie6/10Okay
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