Be Cool movie

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec on the way.

Be Cool is a 2005 movie which was adapted from a 1999 novel. The book was the sequel to the 1990 novel Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (itself adapted into an acclaimed hit 1995 film) about mobster Chili Palmers entrance into the movie industry.The film version of Be Cool started production in 2003. It was directed by F. Gary Gray, produced by Danny DeVito (who produced and co-starred in the first film), and starred John Travolta, reprising his role from the first film.

The movie opened in March 2005 to generally negative reviews, and was released to video and DVD distribution on June 7, 2005.SynopsisChili Palmer helps the widow, Edie, of an executed friend, Tommy Athens, resurrect a record company using the talents of young and talented female vocalist and songwriter, Linda Moon. The plot is complicated by several facts:#Russian Mafia are trying to kill Chili because he witnessed the execution of Athens.#Chili takes Moon despite her contractual obligations to Nick Carr and Raji.#Athens record company owes money to a gangster-type producer, Sin LaSalle.PlotChili Palmer (Travolta), sick of film making, enters the music industry when his friend, Tommy Athens (Woods) and owner of a record company, is executed by a Russian mobster, which Chili witnesses. Chili uses the opportunity to help his friends widow, Edie Athens (Thurman), manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to the Hip Hop mogul Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer). Chili enters the music industry on the talents of a female entertainer, Linda Moon (Christina Milian). Moon convinces Chili to take on her cause, getting out of contractual obligations to Nick Carr (Keitel) and Raji (Vaughn), who has a gay bodyguard named Eliott (played by The Rock), an aspiring actor and the butt of Carr and Rajis homophobic jokes. Carr and Raji take exception to Chilis intervention, and hire a hitman, Joe Loop (Robert Pastorelli) to kill Chili.

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Be Cool Cast

• André Benjamin
• Cedric the Entertainer
• Christina Milian
• Danny DeVito
• Debi Mazar
• Gregory Alan Williams
• Harvey Keitel
• James Woods
• Paul Adelstein
• Robert Pastorelli
• Steven Tyler
• The Rock
• Uma Thurman
• Vince Vaughn