- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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4 out of 5
Imaginatively dragging Elmore Leonard's bestseller Rum Punch into his own postmodern universe peppered with quirky dialogue and cinematic references, director Quentin Tarantino makes this re-energised crime thriller a homage to, and an updating of, 1970s pulp blaxploitation fiction. Black icon Pam Grier is great as the air hostess pressured into an entrapment scam after being arrested for cash smuggling, who decides to use her feminine wiles to outsmart everyone wanting to exploit or kill her. Tarantino draws maximum suspense from a superb cast that includes Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forster and Michael Keaton, and an array of visual techniques such as staging a key scene three times from three different points of view. Complementing this breathlessly exciting down-and-dirty crime drama is a fabulous array of funk classics.
Plot Summary
Crime thriller starring Pam Grier and Samuel L Jackson. Air stewardess Jackie Brown is arrested for smuggling money and drugs into the country for ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie. Realising that Ordell is likely to kill her, Jackie decides to play him and the cops off against each other.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Jackie Brown
- Pam Grier
- Ordell Robbie
- Samuel L Jackson
- Max Cherry
- Robert Forster
- Melanie
- Bridget Fonda
- Ray Nicolette
- Michael Keaton
- Louis Gara
- Robert De Niro
- Mark Dargus
- Michael Bowen
- Beaumont Livingston
- Chris Tucker
- Sheronda
- Lisa Gay Hamilton
- Winston
- Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr
- Simone
- Hattie Winston
- Public defender
- Denise Crosby
- Judge
- Sid Haig
- Amy, Billingsley sales girl
- Aimee Graham
- Cockatoo bartender
- Ellis E Williams
- Billingsley sales girl number two
- Tangie Ambrose
- Raynelle, Ordell's junkie friend
- T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
- Cabo flight attendant
- Venessia Valentino
- Anita Lopez
- Diana Uribe
- Cocktail waitress
- Renee Kelly
- Bartender at Sam's
- Elizabeth McInerney
- Girl at security gate
- Colleen Mayne
- Steakhouse waitress
- Laura Lovelace
Crew
- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
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