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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780788812002 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0788812009 Label: Miramax Films Manufacturer: Miramax Films Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Films Release Date: February 02, 1999 Running Time: 154 minutes Sales Rank: 4554 Studio: Miramax Films Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1997
Amazon.com essential video: The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more "rum" than "punch" and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's 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 (Samuel L. Jackson), a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend--a loose term with Ordell--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 Fed Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40s-ish flight attendant (Pam Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's working for them. The end result is rarely in doubt, and what is left is two hours of Tarantino's expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town.
Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture and language, something he has a gift and passion for. He said this film is for an older audience although the language and drug use may put them off. The film is not a salute to Grier's blaxploitation films beyond the musical score. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster: two neo-stars glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work. --Doug Thomas
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Rating: - Oh so cool with style to spare; one of Tarantino's best moves...
Quinton Tarantino is one of those directors you either love or hate, but there is no denying that he has talent, and what makes his talent even more obvious is his rich sense of style. Tarantino has a very unique charm that he layers his films with, giving them such warm originality.
Much like with directors Baz Luhrmann and David Fincher, a Quinton Tarantino film is undeniably a film by Quinton Tarantino.
With that said; the fact that some have criticized `Jackie Brown' for being a change of pace or unlike Tarantino's more successful films (`Pulp Fiction' and `Reservoir ... Read More
Rating: - Might Be Quentin's Best....
4 and 1/2 Stars.
The story of a 44 yr old black woman struggling to get over a criminal past and a mid-life crisis serves as an unlikely follow-up to Quentin Tarantino's enormously successful 'Pulp Fiction'. This film, a much more character driven piece, is probably his most realistic and linear of the five he's completed.
The plot revolves around a gun-runner's attempt to traffic his money while being pressured by the ATF. But the clever part of the movie has to do with it's shift from the initial plot to the lives and relationships of it's characters (all of which come ... Read More
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I have attempted on two separate occasions to purchase this item through Amazon.com... In each instance I was told that the order had been cancelled and my money refunded to me... Hence I have never received this purchase...
Rating: - Quentin Tarantino does it again,
Jackie Brown is one of the most underrated movies to be released in 1997. Quentin Tarantino made a gritty adult film which featured one of the most underrated actress of the sevnties Pam Grier. While the film isn't as violent as Dogs or Fiction. Samuel L. Jackson gives a great performance and the cameo from Chris Tucker is hilarous
Rating: - Classic Tarantino
'Jackie Brown' has suffered from the case of being an amazing film that's less amazing than the other amazing works of the director, in this case Quentin Tarantino. Because of this it's amazingly underrated but by no means is a weak film. The film revolves around the story of flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) who works out a scheme with a bailbondsman (Robert Forster) to swindle a massive cash smuggle from under the nose of both the DEA and drug/gun runner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson in yet another amazing Tarantino flick performance) for whom the money was for. It doesn't have the tension, ... Read More
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