Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1997-12-25) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 24 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $39,673,162 |
| Screen: | Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard |
| Productions: | Miramax, A Band Apart, Lawrence Bender Productions, Mighty Mighty Afrodite Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 2230: Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
- 2231: Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
- 380: Robert De Niro - Louis Gara
- 2233: Bridget Fonda - Melanie Ralston
- 2232: Michael Keaton - Ray Nicolette
- 5694: Robert Forster - Max Cherry
- 2234: Michael Bowen - Mark Dargus
Crews
- 2235: Elmore Leonard - Novel - Writing
- 2545: Lawrence Bender - Producer - Production
- 3113: Guillermo Navarro - Director of Photography - Camera
- 156: Sally Menke - Editor - Editing
- 5776: Jaki Brown - Casting - Production
- 5777: Robyn M. Mitchell - Casting - Production
- 5779: David Wasco - Production Design - Art
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Reviews
Eky
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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 ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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Booyah! Coming as it did after critical darlings "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction", it's perhaps not surprising that Quentin Tarantino's next film failed to - at the time - scale those giddy heights. Yet on reflection these days, when viewing Tarantino's career over twenty years ....
Continue reading ->r96sk
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Outstanding, no two ways about it. <em>'Jackie Brown'</em> makes for a great watch, I personally found the pacing excellent; which is obviously important for a 2hr 30min+ production. The cast knock it out the park, while the story is riveting. It's worthy of the hype, one of Quent ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Samuel L. Jackson really steals the show here as the petty criminal "Ordell". He sells guns - gradually accumulating a small fortune which he smuggles in from Mexico using the services of the eponymous air stewardess (Pam Grier). When his well oiled machine starts to splutter, he ava ....
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