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7.4/10 • 6.3K

1997-12-252h 34m

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Six players on the trail of a half million in cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

Directors
Quentin Tarantino
Editors
Sally Menke

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  1. Pam Grier

    Pam Grier

    Jackie Brown

  2. Samuel L. Jackson

    Samuel L. Jackson

    Ordell Robbie

  3. Robert De Niro

    Robert De Niro

    Louis Gara

  4. Bridget Fonda

    Bridget Fonda

    Melanie Ralston

  5. Michael Keaton

    Michael Keaton

    Ray Nicolette

  6. Robert Forster

    Robert Forster

    Max Cherry

  7. Michael Bowen

    Michael Bowen

    Mark Dargus

  8. Chris Tucker

    Chris Tucker

    Beaumont Livingston

  9. LisaGay Hamilton

    LisaGay Hamilton

    Sheronda

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Eky

Jun 16, 2012

Quentin Tarantino, a genius who brought us Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs returned with Jackie Brown, a tale of deception in the world of drugs-smuggling business. Heavily inspired by the 1970’s blaxploitation flicks, it tells the story of a stewardess, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) who was pinned inside the cash-smuggling business as she’s tormented between two choices, becoming a cash-mule and in the end snitching her own boss or being smart by keeping the money for herself. It’s quite rare to see a film where the leading role is a female. Even though the plot relies quite much on Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch, Tarantino really did great in giving his own personal touch to the existing materials by adding up a fine composition of clever dialogue, dark humor, and even the ultra violence in the forms of gun-battling badasses, drugs, and absolutely very graphic language, making it absolutely a typical Tarantino flick. This film also possessed its own controversies that put Tarantino in the prosecuted seat because of his frequent use of the word “nigger”. This serious accusation was made by Spike Lee who furiously (while busy counting) noted that was used 38 times, excessively, throughout the film and he claimed that it’s an abuse and definitely an insult to black people. Apart from the above accusation, in my opinion, Jackie Brown, with its strong casts from Pam Grier, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forester, and Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton and Robert De Niro really add up to the greatness of the film. The way I see it, every cast here is given a complex set of character for us to study. Both De Niro and Keaton, despite their small roles, they remain favorable and memorable.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$12,000,000.00
Revenue
$39,673,162.00
Keywords
airportbased on novel or bookpolicearms dealstewardessheistmoneylos angeles, californiadrugsex-conflight attendantneo-noirsuspensefulintense