John Travolta, playing the latter, is sent to LA to collect some cash from a reluctant payer (Gene Hackman) and discovers he has a talent for producing movies. It is one of Travolta's most relaxed ...

90s Hollywood satire starring John Travolta and Gene Hackman. A mobster heads to Hollywood to squeeze a debt and discovers that the movie business is, er, just like his own.

Gene Hackman Picks Up Oscar For ‘French Connection ... Toss in work for Wyatt Earp, The Quick and the Dead, and Get Shorty, too. That’s a major-league lineup of movies for Hackman fans.

Eugene Allen 'Gene' Hackman (born January 30 ... (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums ...