Get Shorty

“Attitude plays a part.”

A Miami loan shark is sent to Los Angeles to collect on a bad debt, and the man who owes it turns out to make cheap horror pictures. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) finds that Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman) is easy to find and hard to squeeze, and he starts to wonder if the movie business is much different from his own. Barry Sonnenfeld, adapting Elmore Leonard, keeps the pace quick and the tone dry, and lets Travolta stay calm in every room.