Get Shorty

By turns satirically glamorous and seedily dark, Get Shorty's stylistic success will surely spell a deluge of Leonard adaptations.

One of the pleasures of "Get Shorty" is watching the way the plot moves effortlessly from crime to the movies - not a long distance, since both industries are based on fear, greed, creativity and intimidation.

Travolta demonstrates that his Pulp Fiction return to stardom was no one-trick fluke; Hackman works against type and walks away with many of the film's best comic bits...

...this is a real treat for movie buffs. The story is as much about the love of motion pictures as it is about gangsters.

GET SHORTY's assortment of lowlifes and high rollers is a familiar one, but it's still deeply satisfying.