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Jackie Brown

Name: Jackie Brown
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Crime/detective, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1997
Duration: 2 h 27 min
Cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton

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Crime/detective
Drama

1997
Quentin Tarantino
147 mins
15

Summary

Crime thriller starring Pam Grier and Samuel L Jackson. Flight attendant 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.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

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 flight attendant 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.

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rolenameJackie BrownPam GrierOrdell RobbieSamuel L JacksonMax CherryRobert ForsterMelanieBridget FondaRay NicoletteMichael KeatonLouis GaraRobert De NiroMark DargusMichael BowenBeaumont LivingstonChris TuckerSherondaLisa Gay HamiltonWinstonTom "Tiny" Lister JrSimoneHattie WinstonPublic defenderDenise CrosbyJudgeSid HaigAmy, Billingsley sales girlAimee GrahamCockatoo bartenderEllis E WilliamsBillingsley sales girl number twoTangie AmbroseRaynelle, Ordell's junkie friendT'Keyah Crystal KeymahCabo flight attendantVenessia ValentinoAnita LopezDiana UribeCocktail waitressRenee KellyBartender at Sam'sElizabeth McInerneyGirl at security gateColleen MayneSteakhouse waitressLaura Lovelace