BE COOL

Year: 2005
USA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Steven Tyler, Robert Pastorelli, Christina Milian, Harvey Keitel, The Rock, Danny DeVito, Paul Adelstein, Debi Mazar, GregAlan Williams, James Woods, Wyclef Jean, Fred Durst, Sergio Mendes, Gene Simmons, The RZA, Joe Perry, Anna Nicole Smith, Anthony J Ribustello, Steve Maye, Alex Kubik, Darren Carter, Carol Duboc, Minae Noji, Arielle Kebbel, Kimberly J Brown, Jordan Moseley, Margaret Travolta
Director: F Gary Gray
Country: USA
UK: 119 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for violence, sensuality, and language including sexual references
UK Certificate: 12A contains one use of strong language and moderate violence
USA Release Date: 4 March 2005
UK Release Date: 1 April 2005

Synopsis

John Travolta is back 10 years later as Chili Palmer again in BE COOL, a sequel to the comedy smash GET SHORTY. This time, Chili becomes a different kind of "hit" man - he abandons the movie industry to bring his wise guy skills and negotiation tactics to the music business.

When a friend is offed while they're at lunch, Chili takes the opportunity to visit the guy's wife, Edie (Uma Thurman), and pitch himself as her new business partner at an independent record label. With a promising young pop-star-in-training as his protege (Christina Milian), Chili has to juggle her faux-urban manager (Vince Vaughn), his gay, wannabe-actor bodyguard (The Rock), Russian mobsters, and an eloquent gangsta music producer (Cedric The Entertainer) to save the label and land a hit - and keep from getting popped himself.

From the director of THE ITALIAN JOB and recently announced THE ITALIAN JOB II on which filming is due to start in early 2005 starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron and Jason Statham again - F Gary Gray is also an executive producer. Based on the novel executively produced by Elmore Leonard who also wrote GET SHORTY.