Jackie Brown

Name: Jackie Brown
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Released: 1997

The Run Down.

Stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to LA for arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolette and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them arrest Ordell. Meanwhile Ordell asks Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects Ordell's intentions and plots a complicated confidence game to steal half a million dollar from him. (IMDB)

Release Year: 1997

Source: Novel ( Rum Punch)

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Written by: Quentin Tarantino

Production: Miramax

Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Robert Forster

Runtime: 154 Minutes

This is the movie that proves Tarantino is the real thing, and not just a two-film wonder boy. It's not a retread of "Reservoir Dogs" or "Pulp Fiction," but a new film in a new style, and it evokes the particular magic of Elmore Leonard—who elevates the crime novel to a form of sociological comedy

— Roger Ebert

The Book: Rum Punch

Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell's profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie—and now the aging, but still hot, flight attendant will have to do prison time or play ball, which makes her a prime "loose end" that Ordell needs to tie up permanently. Jackie, however, has other options. And with the help of Max Cherry—an honest but disgruntled bail bondsman looking to get out—she could even end up with a serious nest egg in the process.

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