Jackie Brown

Starring: Chris Tucker, Pam Grier Director: Quentin Tarantino Original UK Premiere: 1998 Dvd Release: 22nd January, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Jackie Brown is a 1997 motion picture, the third film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Pam Grier & Robert Forster. Robert De Niro, Samuel L Jackson, Bridget Fonda & Michael Keaton costar. The screenplay is based on the novel Rum Punch by American novelist Elmore Leonard, although Tarantino made considerable changes to the story line & characters. Pam Grier plays Jackie Brown, a middle-aged airline flight attendant who gets coerced by ATF agent Ray Nicolette to help them help bring down arms smuggler Ordell & his accomplices. In true Tarantino form, this film has a substantial amount of violence & profanity. It has been criticized, as did Tarantinos previous film Pulp Fiction, for the frequent use of the word nigger in the dialogue. Also noteworthy was the fact that Tarantino chose to cast in the principal roles Grier & Forster, both of whom were veteran actors, but not superstar-caliber leads, while casting stars De Niro & Keaton in supporting roles. Posters Of Jackie Brown

The curiosity of Quentin Tarantinos Jackie Brown is Robert Forsters worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonards Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the films only nomination. The film is more rum than punch & will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantinos trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country. The money belongs to Ordell , a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe & do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend, a loose term with Ordell, Louis is just taking up space & could be interested in the money. However, his loyalties are in question between his old partner & Ordells doped-up girl . Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40-ish flight-attendant who can pull her own weight & soon has both sides believing shes working for them. The end result is rarely in doubt, & what is left is two hours of Tarantinos expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town.

Tarantino changed the race of Jackie & Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture & language, something he has a gift & passion for. He said this film is for an older audience although the language & drug use may put them off. The film is not a salute to Griers blaxploitation films beyond the musical score. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier & Forster: glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work.

Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress. She grew up in Denver, Colorado & is cousin to football player & actor Roosevelt Grier. Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures The Big Doll House & The Big Bird Cage. She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom & essentially interchangeable roles in such films as Coffy & Foxy Brown. With the demise of blaxploitation, Griers career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including notably the stoned prostitute in Fort Apache, the Bronx, a witch in Something Wicked This Way Comes & Steven Seagals detective partner in Above the Law. She became a regular on the television detective series Miami Vice in 1984. Grier re-achieved leading lady status in 1997 as the titular stewardess in Quentin Tarantino s Jackie Brown, which many consider her best work so far. Grier is currently appearing in the television series The L Word. Posters Of Pam Grier

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Quentin Tarantino is an American screenwriter, film director & actor who rapidly rose to fame in the early 1990s as a fresh & gritty storyteller who brought new life to the most familiar American archetypes. Tarantinos big break came with the sale of his script True Romance, written with Roger Avary, which was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette & Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers, as part of the longer screenplay that True Romance came from, although it was changed significantly by subsequent writers. The sale of True Romance garnered him attention. He met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party & Bender encouraged Quentin to go write a film. The end product was Reservoir Dogs. The script was read by director Monte Helman who helped secure funding from Live Entertainment & also Quentins directorship of the film. A stylish, witty & blood-soaked heist movie, this set the tone for his later films. His followup was Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme dOr at the 1994 Cannes film festival. Posters Of Quentin Tarantino

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