| | | Six players on the trail of a half million in cash.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and based on Elmore Leonard's bestseller Rum Punch, Jackie Brown is at once a comic crime caper and a story of real people who step over the line of legality from time to time. Five charismatic characters are chasing a half million dollars cash, and there's only one question: who's playing who. Jackie (Pam Grier) supplements her meager income as a stewardess by smuggling cash into the for U.S. gunrunner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson)--until the day an ATF agent (Michael Keaton) and an L.A. cop (Michael Bowen) bust her at the airport. The cops pressure her to help them bring down Ordell, threatening prison if she refuses. With a sympathetic bailbondsman (Robert Forster), who understands her restlessness only too well, Jackie arrives at a bold almost foolhardy plan to play off these opposing forces against each other. Matters are complicated by Ordell's confederates, Louis Gara (Robert De Niro) and Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda) who have agendas of their own. By appearing to cooperate with both sides, Jackie attempts to outfox them both and walk away with a half million dollar payday. Combining an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor, Quentin Tarantino scores again with the entertaining Jackie Brown!
"Jackie Brown is a kick, well-executed... and well-acted." Melissa Morrison, Boxoffice Magazine
"...a kick, well executed (so to speak) and well-acted." Melissa Morrison, Box Office Magazine
"Dynamite performances all around..." Leonard Maltin
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.
Plot Summary
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.
| Features | Robert Forster Trailers | | 5.1 Dolby Digitial, DTS | | Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | | Pam Grier Radio Spots | | Reviews & Articles | | Pam Grier Trailers | | Deleted and alternate scenes | | "Jackie Brown" on MTV | | Maverick Soundtrack Promo | | Filmographies | | Trivia Game | | Chick With Guns Video | | TV Spots | | Stills Gallery | | Screenplay Viewer | | "A Look Back At JACKIE BROWN" | | Theatrical Trailers |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 6/7/2005 |
| Running Time: 154 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 2354003 | | UPC: 00786936161564 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1998) | | | Robert Forster, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor | |
Golden Globe (1998) | | | Samuel L. Jackson, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical | | | Pam Grier, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical | |
MTV Award (1998) | | | Samuel L. Jackson, Nominee, Best Male Performance |
| Memorable Quotes| "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 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Loaded with action, laughs, smart dialogue and potent performances, JACKIE BROWN is most memorable for its unexpected feeling..." 01/22/1998 p.61-2Sight 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 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
...One of the pleasures of Jackie Brown, Tarantino's new film, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, is that everybody in the movie is smart. Whoever is smartest will live... This is the movie that proves Tarantino is the real thing, and not just a two-film wonder boy. - Roger Ebert
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