can anybody reccomend films similar to get shorty

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frant1a — 20 years ago(April 14, 2005 11:07 PM)

If you like british flicks of the same genre, I'd reccommend both Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
And by the way, Big Trouble is nowhere near as bad as Wild Wild West, by any means.

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vysesdarkheart — 20 years ago(April 15, 2005 09:17 AM)

Midnight run, with Dennis Farina as good there as in get shorty.

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barfly467 — 20 years ago(June 02, 2005 04:22 PM)

How can you not like Big Trouble, that movie was funny as hell. All of the cast did a great job. Jason Lee was so funny in that movie and I loved the music.

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TPO_Hisself — 20 years ago(April 19, 2005 10:17 AM)

For my money, Leonard Elmore's Big Bounce and Carl Hiaasin's Strip Tease are both right up there. colorful 'way out there' characters and satyric humor abound in both.
Elmore's Touch is also worthwhile, as is The Crew w/ Burt Reynolds.
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TheGriff — 20 years ago(April 28, 2005 08:51 PM)

To begin with, if you love Get Shorty, please save yourself time, money, and probably a broken heart and do not see Be Cool. It's just a bunch of cheap laughs an a knockoff of Get Shorty.
Butthere is salvation.
I would suggest seeing Pulp Fiction..John Travolta again, playing a gangster lackey with his partner, played by Samuel L. Jackson. They're very similaronly Get Shorty is more of a comedy, although Pulp Fiction has it's funny moments. Both have great soundtracks though.

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GuyIncognito — 20 years ago(May 09, 2005 06:02 PM)

I strongly suggest Swimming With Sharks. It is about an assistant to who is essentially Jerry Bruckheimer finally snapping after having to deal with all of his BS for 2 or 3 years. Very amusing insider look, and a good movie as well.
Stars Kevin Spacy as the film exec (who just gets to ham it up and have a blast), and frank whaley (I think) as the assistant. It rules.
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terr_zump2007 — 20 years ago(May 21, 2005 09:12 AM)

get shorty was good and reconmending oceans 11 is a must and if you like be cool then check out the itian job, made by the same people that made be cool.

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FunkMcLovin — 20 years ago(May 25, 2005 10:08 AM)

By "same people" you mean one person, the director. BE COOL and THE ITALIAN JOB are very different movies and while F GARY GRAY did a decent job on the latter, he was a terrible director for BE COOL. Even if you happened to like the movie (which I cannot understand, because it was awful, but I digress), you cannot escape the fact that the direction was quite poor, especially when taking GET SHORTY into consideration. A sequel should never have such a dramatically different feel than the first movie.

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nutsberryfarm — 12 years ago(July 22, 2013 12:50 PM)

'men at work'.
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nascentt — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 09:21 AM)

Mikey Blue Eyes is kind of a gangster comedy. might be worth checking out.
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otr91 — 10 years ago(November 17, 2015 06:18 AM)

For me, True Romance had a similar vibe and if anything is more entertaining. It ends up in California but isn't about Hollywood.
Good movies about Hollywood/movie industry: Ed Wood with Johnny Depp, Sunset Blvd, Mulholland Drive. Those last two are more dark side of Hollywood.
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