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Be Cool (2005)

★ 5.5 · 975 ratings on TMDB

Everyone is looking for the next big hit.

Be Cool poster★ 5.5

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.

DirectorF. Gary Gray
CastAndré 3000, Cedric the Entertainer, Christina Milian, Dwayne Johnson, John Travolta, Paul Adelstein
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Be Cool keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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