Time to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this amazing movie!

25 years ago this week, Barry Sonnenfeld’s Get Shorty made its inauspicious debut in theaters. An R-rated crime comedy for adults released in late October doesn’t exactly come across as major box office material, but the movie wound up becoming a surprise hit for MGM, grossing roughly $115 million worldwide on an estimated budget of $30 million. Based on the novel by renowned author Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty kicked off a decade of fascination with Leonard’s darkly comedic crime fiction. Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, and the short-lived TV …