Jackie Brown (Blu-Ray) (1997)

Editor's Note Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a flight attendant who makes extra cash by running drugs and cash for sleazebag Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). When Jackie sees the opportunity to make off with a large chunk of change, she begins to play everyone around her, including two detectives who are threatening her with jail time if she doesn't rat out Ordell, and a sympathetic bail bondsman (Robert Forster) who finds himself falling for Jackie. Tarantino sets a pace that is laid back and groovy, building to an eventual climax that determines whether or not Jackie walks away with the booty. In much the same way that Tarantino resuscitated John Travolta's career with PULP FICTION, he does the same thing here with Grier and Forster. Overall, JACKIE BROWN is a less in-your-face effort than Tarantino's previous films, but it's this downshift in gears that makes it so refreshing.

	Renee Kelly
	Bridget Fonda
	T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
	Michael Keaton
	Sid Haig
	Michael Bowen
	Colleen Mayne
	Chris Tucker
	Venessia Valentino
	Hattie Winston
	Diana Uribe
	Laura Lovelace
	Aimee Graham
	Samuel L. Jackson
	Tangie Ambrose
	Robert Forster
	Denise Crosby
	Elizabeth McInerney
	Pam Grier
	Robert De Niro
	Ellis E. Williams
	Lisa Gay Hamilton
	Tiny Lister
	Mary Claire Hannan - Costume Designer
	Sally Menke - Editor
	Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer
	Quentin Tarantino - Screenwriter
	Elmore Leonard - Story
	David Wasco - Production Designer
	Paul Hellerman - Co-Producer
	Bob Weinstein - Executive Producer
	Richard N. Gladstein - Executive Producer
	Joseph Julian Gonzalez - Additional Music/Songs
	Lawrence Bender - Producer
	Elmore Leonard - Executive Producer
	Guillermo Navarro - Director of Photography
	Quentin Tarantino - Director

When she's not stowing carry-ons, 40-something flight attendant Jackie Brown runs soiled cash and other sundries for L.A. lowlife Ordell Robbie, an all-purpose bad guy scheming with a dull-witted prison buddy to pull off their biggest run yet. But trouble arises in the form of gung-ho lawmen who want Ms. Brown to rat out her boss, lest they send her up the river. With the help of a beleaguered bail bondsman with the hots for her, Jackie plays both sides in hopes of snagging the haul--a cool half-million--for herself. Quentin Tarantino applies his characteristic loquacity and fondness for 1970s cheese to RUM PUNCH, Elmore Leonard's spare, Miami-set crime suspense story.

"Half a million dollars will always be missed."----Max Cherry (Robert Forster) to Jackie Brown (Pam Grier)

"Is she dead, yes or no?"----Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) to Louis Gara (Robert DeNiro)|"Pretty much."----Louis

Rolling Stone
"...Loaded with action, laughs, smart dialogue and potent performances, JACKIE BROWN is most memorable for its unexpected feeling..." 01/22/1998 p.61-2

Sight and Sound
"...Intriguing....There's something confidently easy-going about it..." 04/01/1998 p.39-40

USA Today
"...A great cast is well-utilized..." 12/24/1997 p.3D

New York Times
"...Ms. Grier makes an enjoyable comeback..." 12/24/1997 p.E5

Box Office
"...JACKIE BROWN is a kick, well-executed...and well acted....It deepens and broadens Tarantino's storytelling..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/1998 p.53

Chicago Sun-Times
"...This is the movie that proves Tarantino is the real thing....A new film in a new style....If Tarantino's strengths are dialogue and plotting, his gift is casting..." 12/24/1997 p.26

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "JACKIE BROWN has worn exceptionally well....This has the feel of a funky, lost '70s semi-classic: measured, mature, with a hip undertow." 10/01/2011