Be cool

Resource Information

The work Be cool represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Be cool

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents a Jersey Films/Double Feature Films productions, an F. Gary Gray film ; produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, David Nicksay ; screenplay by Peter Steinfeld ; directed by F. Gary Gray

Title variation

Sois cool

Contributor

• Gray, F. Gary
• Kimball, Jeffrey L., 1943-
• Cedric, the Entertainer, 1965-
• Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
• Thurman, Uma
• Bridges, Mark, (Costume designer)
• Travolta, John, 1954-
• Andre 3000, 1975-
• Vaughn, Vince
• MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Actor

• Vaughn, Vince
• Andre 3000, 1975-
• Travolta, John, 1954-
• Thurman, Uma
• Cedric, the Entertainer, 1965-

Cinematographer

• Kimball, Jeffrey L., 1943-

Director

• Gray, F. Gary

Subject

• Feature films
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Feature films
• Comedy -- Feature
• Feature films
• Feature films
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Fiction
• Film sequels
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Drama
• Leonard, Elmore, 1925- -- Film and video adaptations
• Music trade -- California | Los Angeles -- Drama
• Musical films
• Sound recording executives and producers -- California | Los Angeles -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• Crime -- Feature
• Criminal behavior -- California | Los Angeles -- Drama

Genre

• Film sequels
• Comedy
• Comedy films
• Crime
• DVD-Video discs
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction
• Film and video adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Musical films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• chi
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian mafia and a suburbian rap-mogul producer & his thugs. When it turns out that the widow had been the laundress for Aerosmith, she makes contact with Steven Tyler and gets their protege a duet with Tyler at an Aerosmith concert

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Jeffrey L. Kimball ;editor, Sheldon Kahn ; music, John Powell ; costume designer, Mark Bridges ; production designer, Michael Corenblith ; choreographer, Fatima Robinson

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: PG-13; for violence, sensuality and language including sexual references
• CHV rating 14A

Language note

English or French dialogue; English, French, Cantonese, Mandarin or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.B43 2005

PerformerNote

John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin, Steven Tyler, Robert Pastorelli, Christina Milian, Paul Adelstein, Harvey Keitel, The Rock, Danny DeVito

Runtime

119

Target audience

general

Technique

live action