Be Cool Page #2

Synopsis: Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Director(s): F. Gary Gray
Production: MGM/UA
  1 win & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
PG-13
Year:
2005
118 min
$55,590,667
Website
841 Views


- Linda.

- Yo!

- Yo, I ain't sellin' that.

- Raji, no, I...

That ain't sexy. You better go

put your chick sh*t back on.

I can't put that on right now.

I have a meeting.

I'm telling you, there's people out here

paid to come see this sh*t.

Give me one second.

Baby, I just told you

to put your clothes on, didn't I?

- I can't!

- Did I not tell you that?

- Look!

- Don't "look" me again!

- Mr. Palmer?

- Call me Chili.

- It's an absolute pleasure to meet you.

- Thank you.

Please, have a seat.

- Can I get you something to drink?

- I have something coming.

- So, Tommy's gone?

- Yeah.

I can't believe it.

I guess this means

you're not doing the movie?

Well, I gotta be honest

with you, Linda.

I'm getting out of the movie business.

Here you go.

What's the matter?

I'm tired of this, Mr. Palmer.

Look, if I can get some cash,

I would buy my way out of my contract

and get out of music.

Are you kidding?

After what I just saw?

- Why would you do that?

- 'Cause it sucks.

Look, I could do the same thing topless

and make $2,000 a week with tips.

Well, why don't you do that?

I'm Baptist.

My father wouldn't approve.

So then you're like Aretha Franklin.

You learned to sing in church.

I learned from my father.

My dad was in a jazz band.

Nothing big, though.

See, everything I know about music

I learned from him.

I always thought we'd play together,

but then...

...then he died, so...

Yo, Linda! Yo!

I didn't dismiss you.

You're on my time.

That's my manager Raji

with Miss Bangkok.

I told him I want to quit

and he's, like, "You quit me, girl,

I'm gonna jack you up. "

He talks like that?

He thinks he's black.

His real name is Roger Lowenthal.

He's partners with this guy

named Nick Carr.

He's this music promoter?

I know Nicky.

They caught me

straight off the bus from Texas.

Said they'd make me this big star

and like a fool, I believed 'em.

When you done turnin' tricks,

get your ass back over here!

I ain't done with you yet!

Look, I can't do five more years.

Not with these guys.

Who's the big guy?

That's Elliot Wilhelm,

Raji's bodyguard.

He's got this thing

that he can raise one eyebrow,

give you that look.

He wants to be in movies.

What, that's it?

He just does the one eyebrow?

As far as I know, he's gay, too.

Word is he once threw a guy out of

a 30-story building for calling him a fag.

Well, he must've been mad.

Maybe if you didn't blow

all your energy bangin' tourists,

your voice wouldn't sound so flat.

Talkin' about a flat voice,

you know what I'm sayin'?

Yeah, that one was for me,

so you just relax.

You're gonna end up doing

fifty-cent lap dances at the First King

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Peter Steinfeld

Peter L. Steinfeld is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for writing mystery film Drowning Mona (released 2000), comedy film Be Cool (2005) and drama film 21 (2008). more…

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