Be Cool

Be Cool is a 2005 American crimecomedy film adapted from Elmore Leonards 1999 novel of the same name and the sequel to Leonards 1990 novel Get Shorty itself adapted into a hit 1995 film of the same name about mobster Chili Palmers entrance into the film industry.

Chili Palmer John Travolta helps Edie Athens Uma Thurman, the widow of an executed friend, Tommy Athens James Woods, to resurrect a record company using the talents of young and talented female vocalist and songwriter, Linda Moon Christina Milian. The plot is complicated by several factsChili Palmer, after years of filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing the execution, by the head of the Russian mob, of his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a record company. Chili uses the opportunity to help his friends widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing business, which owes 300,000 to the hip hop producer Sin LaSalle. Chili enters the music industry on the talents of a female entertainer, Linda Moon. Moon convinces Chili to take on her cause, getting out of contractual obligations to Nick Carr Harvey Keitel and Raji Vince Vaughn, who has a gay Samoan bodyguard named Elliott 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 Lupino Robert Pastorelli to kill Chili. In the meantime, Chili convinces Edie to produce Moon, hoping to resurrect Athens failing record company through a live performance with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith. ........

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