2005 Movies : Crime

With Dwayne Johnson • Vince Vaughn • John Travolta • Uma Thurman • Danny DeVito • Christina Milian • F. Gary Gray • Harvey Keitel • Andre Benjamin • Cedric the Entertainer • Joe Pesci • Michael Shamberg • Stacey Sher • Peter Stienfeld

John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer in "Be Cool", a sequel to the comedy smash "Get Shorty". This time, Chili becomes a different kind of "hit" man—he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music business. When a friend is offed while they're at lunch, Chili takes the opportunity to visit the guy's wife, Edie (Uma Thurman), and pitch himself as her new business partner at an independent record label. With a promising young pop-star-in-training as his protégé (Christina Milian), Chili has to juggle her faux-urban manager (Vince Vaughn), his gay, wannabe-actor bodyguard (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), Russian mobsters, and an eloquent gangsta music producer (Cedric the Entertainer,) to save the label and land a hit—and keep from getting popped himself.

With Bruce Willis • Rumer Willis • Mark Gordon • Bob Yari • Ben Foster • Arnold Rifkin • Doug Richardson • Jimmy Pinchak • Richard D Zanuck • Jimmy Bennett • Jonathan Tucker • Kevin Pollack • Serena Scott Thomas • Marshall Allman • Michelle Horn • Florent Siri • Robert Crais

Bruce Willis stars as an LAPD hostage negotiator, who withdraws to the countryside to become chief of a two-man police department after a bloody standoff. Instead of achieving a sense of peace in the small town, he finds himself embroiled in negotiations to save his wife and daughter. Messner will play an FBI operative who comes onto the crime scene to work with Willis' character and retrieve computer disks.

With Ernie Hudson • Regina King • Nick Offerman • Bruce Berman • Mary McLaglen • William Shatner • Enrique Murciano • Diedrich Bader • Susan Chuang • William O'Leary • Abraham Benrubi • Heather Burns • Treat Williams • Elisabeth Rohm • Lusia Strus • Leslie Erin Grossman • John DiResta • Marc Lawrence • John Pasquin

The story catches up with FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) shortly after she successfully disarmed a threat against the Miss United States Pageant while working undercover as a contestant in Miss Congeniality. Having become a media celebrity following her heroic pageant exploits, Gracie has been spending more time lately at the salon than the shooting range, working the talk show circuit and promoting her book. When her friends, pageant winner Cheryl and emcee Stan, are kidnapped in Las Vegas, Gracie's all-out efforts to jump back into action to save them puts her at loggerheads with the FBI top brass who don't want to risk losing their mascot and fear she might not be up to the job anymore.