
Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies.
David PaymerLeo Devoe
Delroy LindoBo Catlett
James GandolfiniBear
Gene HackmanHarry Zimm
Alex RoccoJimmy Cap (Ray Bones' boss) (uncredited)Miguel Sandoval plays a Colombian drug lord named "Escobar." In Clear and Present Danger (1994) he played a Colombian drug lord named "Escobedo."
Chili Palmer:
Rough business, this movie business. I'm gonna have to go back to loan-sharking just to take a rest.
Continuity: The checkers players in the barber shop move around between shots.
Written by Syd Wyche
Performed by Booker T. & the M.G.s (as Booker T. & The MG's)
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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