Get Shorty (1995)

Storyline

Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he’s struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he’s snagged up by a producer. The rest is history. Get Shorty, the 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld action crime comedy (“Attitude plays a part”; “Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard”) starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini (best remembered from his starring role as Tony Soprano in HBO’s TV series “The Sopranos”), and David Paymer