One of the Telegraph's top ten Elmore Leonard film adaptations:
Get Shorty (1995)
Leonard’s 1990 bestseller became, five years later, his highest grossing film adaptation. John Travolta, hot from his Pulp Fiction renaissance, played a Miami loan shark who segues to the movie industry – with instant success.Read about the other entries on the list.
Get Shorty made Justin Peters's list of five of





