Get Shorty (1995)

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s smart, hip adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel zooms along, lampooning the movie business with periodic punches to the face. John Travolta is the ultra-cool Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster who wants to be a Hollywood producer.

d: Barry Sonnenfeld | imdb.com | trailer | I’m Ray Barboni.

Midnight Run (1988)

Robert De Niro (a bounty hunter) escorts Charles Grodin (an embezzler) from New York to Los Angeles, and they’re a fantastic comedy team in an action road picture. The duo spends most the film handcuffed — De Niro the put-upon ex-cop and Grodin perfectly droll.

d: Martin Brest | imdb.com | trailer | These things go down.
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