Be Cool is a 2005 sequel to the novel Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard, which inspired the 1995 movie of the same name, about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance to the music industry.

The movie opened to generally lukewarm reviews. It was released to video and DVD distribution on June 7, 2005.

Chili Palmer (played by John Travolta) helps the widow, Edie (played by Uma Thurman), of an executed friend, Tommy Athens (James Woods), resurrect a record company using the talents of young and talented female vocalist and dancer, Linda Moon (played by Christina Milian). The plot is complicated by several facts: (1) Russian mobsters are trying to kill Chili because he witnessed the execution of Athens, (2) Chili takes Moon despite her contractual obligations to Nick Carr (Harvey Keitel) and Raji (Vince Vaughn), and (3) Athens' record company owes money to a gangster-type producer, Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer).

The movie includes a reuniting of Travolta and Thurman dancing together.

Chili Palmer (Travolta) sick of film making enters the music industry when his friend, Tommy Athens (Woods) and owner of a record company, is executed by a Russian mobster, which Chili witnesses. Chili uses the opportunity to help his friend's widow, Edie Athens (Thurman), manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to the band Dub.M.D's led by Dabu (Andrê Benjamin), and gangster mogule Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer). Chili enters the music industry on the talents of a female entertainer, Linda Moon (Milian). Moon convinces Chili to take on her cause, getting out of a contractual obligations to Nick Carr (Keitel) and Raji (Vaughn), who has a gay bodyguard named Eliot (played by The Rock). Carr and Raji take great exception to Chili's cause, and hire a hitman, Joe Loop (Robert Postorelli) to "off" Chili. In the mean time, Chili convinces Edie to produce Moon hoping to resurrect Athens' failing record company, through a live performance with Aerosmith and Steven Tyler.

The movie follows the downfall of each of these unscrupulous enemies of Chili. Sin LaSalle begins by threatening Chili and Edie for payment of the $300,000; but Chili and Edie convince Sin to give them a few days to get the money. When the Russians attempt to kill Chili, Joe Loop mistakenly kills the Russian hit man. Raji then hits the hitman (Joe Loop) out of frustration. Carr angers the Russian mobsters who make an untimely visit to Carr's office while Sin LaSalle is there. Insulted by the Russian mob boss LaSalle kills him. In the mean time, Raji sends Eliot to kill Chili. However, Chili, in cool fashion, befriends the gay man. When Carr threatens Chili, Chili slyly sends him to the hands of the police. Finally when Raji and Eliot threaten Chili, Chili again befriends Eliot, who turns on Raji in defense of Chili. For all his smooth talking and flamboyant wardrobe, Raji finds himself on the receiving end of fireworks which ends up roasting him live on camera. While on the other end, Carr ends up getting arrested by the police on murder charges.

During all of this befuddling Chili manages to squeeze in a dance scene with Edie (the awaited Travolta-Thurman reunion from Pulp Fiction), and Moon gets her debut with Aerosmith. In the end LaSalle becomes the producer for Moon, and they all live happily ever after.