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‘Get Shorty’ Is the Purest Distillation of Elmore Leonard
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‘Get Shorty’ Is the Purest Distillation of Elmore Leonard

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 / 20 November 2018

The 1995 Hollywood caper Get Shorty, starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito, was billed as Elmore Leonard's revenge on the movie industry, but it has a funny way of showing it.

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Great Movies With Terrible Sequels: Laughable Sequels in Action

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 / 21 April 2015
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‘The French Connection’ Is Transcontinental in More Ways Than One

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 / 9 October 2012
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It’s a Different Kind of Blue in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’

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 / 9 September 2012
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Downhill Racer

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 / 2 December 2009
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French Connection 1 & 2

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 / 16 March 2009
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Bonnie and Clyde

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 / 30 April 2008
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Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

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 / 10 January 2007
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Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds’ Is an Enduring Artistic Triumph

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 / 16 November 2006
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Prime Cut (1972)

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 / 1 July 2005
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Get Shorty (Special Edition) (1995)

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 / 17 February 2005
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Runaway Jury (2003)

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 / 16 October 2003