Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend, a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the company, and begins the poor friend's girlfriend.
11 November 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
8 February 1974, Overbrook Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 May 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 May 1972, Hayward, California, USA
12 July 1969
14 July 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 June 1954, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1974, Istanbul, Turkey
28 March 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 April 1964, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
25 October 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 October 1969, La Plaine, Haiti
30 May 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 September 1950, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
February 11, 2012
Be Cool isn't the biting satire that Get Shorty was. It's lighter, hipper, and, yes, more fun.
March 07, 2005
You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'
March 05, 2005
Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.
April 06, 2010
I was really glad when it was over.
March 05, 2005
The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.
April 18, 2009
Self-mocking jokes prevail in F. Gary Gray's feisty cinematic version of Elmore Leonard's irreverent Los Angeles based novel.
September 10, 2006
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September 30, 2010
Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.
January 07, 2011
Be Cool sounds like it should be good, or at least entertaining, but it's neither. It does have some genuinely fun moments, but lacks a strong narrative to hang them off of. The result is empty, full of contrivances, and ultimately unsatisfying.
June 08, 2005
The characters are still engaging, but the story is a mess this time around.
March 07, 2005
One of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers.
March 04, 2005
It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.

