Drug smuggling. Racketeering. Loan sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! John Travolta leads an all-star cast in the hysterical comedy that insists it doesn’t take much to make it in the movies… just a background with the Mob!

Loan shark Chili Palmer (Travolta) is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), Chili talks tough… and then pitches to Harry a script idea. Immediately Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: he schmoozes film star Martin Weir (Danny DeVito), romances B-queen Karen Flores (Rene Russo) and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. In fact, all would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren’t for the drug smugglers and the angry mobsters who won’t leave him alone!

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Stars: Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito