Be Cool [WS]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Underworld hipster Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (once again played by John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over Athens' record company, Nothing to Lose Records, and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman). Edie is an experienced hand in record production, and together she and Chili spot what would seem to be the ideal act for their label -- Linda Moon (Christina Milian), a beautiful young woman with a powerhouse voice. Linda is stuck, however, in a going-nowhere R&B trio managed by the monumentally sleazy Raji (Vince Vaughn). Chili isn't much concerned about Linda's contract with Raji, but Raji certainly is, and the manager soon takes out a contract on Chili with the same Russian hoods who killed Tommy. Soon Chili is facing all the action he can handle between the Russian gunmen, a music mogul named Nick Carr (Harvey Keitel) who wants Chili to stay out of the business, and Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer), a successful hip-hop producer who wants Chili to pay him the 300,000 dollars he is owed by Tommy. Be Cool also features appearances by The Rock as a gay Samoan bodyguard, Andre Benjamin (aka Andre 3000 from the hip-hop duo Outkast) as a rapper who isn't very good with a gun, and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler as himself. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Audio: Dolby Digital Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: Cantonese, Spanish, French, English, Mandarin
• Features:
  • cc
  • "Be Cool, Very Cool" making-of documentary
  • Deleted scenes
  • Gag reel
  • Music video: The Rock as Elliot Wilhelm, "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man"
  • Close-up featurette: John and Uma's dance sequence
  • Close-up featurette: The Rock
  • Close-up featurette: Andre 3000
  • Close-up featurette: Cedric the Entertainer
  • Close-up featurette: Christina Milian

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  F. Gary Gray

• Producer:

  Danny DeVito, David Nicksay, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher

• Book Author:

  Elmore Leonard

• Screenwriter:

  Peter Steinfeld

• Cinematographer:

  Jeffrey Kimball

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Mary Ramos

• Composer (Music Score):

  John Powell

• Editor:

  Sheldon Kahn, Christopher Rouse

• Production Designer:

  Michael Corenblith

• Art Director:

  Lauren Polizzi

• Supervising Art Director:

  Dan Webster

• Associate Producer:

  Anson Downes, Linda Rae Favila, Andy Gose

• Executive Producer:

  Elmore Leonard, F. Gary Gray, Michael Siegel

• Set Decorator:

  Denise Pizzini

• Costume Designer:

  Mark Bridges

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Doug Arnold

• First Assistant Director:

  J. Michael Haynie

• Choreography:

  Fatima Robinson

• Casting:

  Georgianne Walken, Sheila Jaffe

• Stunts Coordinator:

  Kurt Bryant

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Mark Stoeckinger

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Mark Freund

• Key Grip:

  Al Laverde

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Victor Ennis