Stars: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen, Denise Crosby, Sid Haig, Chris Tucker, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Aimee Graham, Tangie Ambrose, Renee Kelly, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah, Tom 'Tiny' Lister, Laura Lovelace, Colleen Mayne, Elizabeth McInerney, Diana Uribe, Venessia Valentino, Ellis E. Williams, Hattie Winston

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Summary: Jackie Brown is an air hostess who supplements her income by carrying large amounts of cash between Mexico and the US for a gun dealer. After being arrested at the airport she can only gain her freedom by shopping the gun dealer but she knows that if she does that he will kill her. However, she has a plan to escape and with a large chunk of the money...

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.

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The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brownis Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The film is more "rum" than "punch", though, with a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country. The money belongs to Ordell (Samuel L Jackson), a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend Louis (Robert De Niro) is just taking up space and could be interested in the money. However, his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordell's doped-up girl (Bridget Fonda). Certainly Federal Agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40-ish flight-attendant (Pam Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's working for them.

Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows him to heap on black culture and language, something he has a gift and passion for, though the film is not a salute to Grier's blaxploitation films beyond the soundtrack. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster: glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work. --Doug Thomas

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Quentin Tarantino Introduction, Soundtrack Chapter Selection, Original Documentary How It Went Down, A Look Back At Jackie Brown Interview With Quentin Taratino, Chicks And Guns Video, Deleted Scenes, Alternate Scenes, Siskel And Ebert At The Movies Jackie Bro
Year:	1997
Release Date:	September 16, 2002
Runtime:	148 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 888324
Keywords:	Two, Brown, General, Edition, Wide, Screen, Jackie, Drama, Discs, Collector's
Genre:	Drama