Jackie Brown (film)

Jackie Brown is a 1997 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Quentin Tarantino, and his third feature film. It is an adaptation of Elmore Leonards 1992 novel Rum Punch. Its the first and to date, only adaptation from Tarantino and stars Pam Grier in the title role. The film pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly the films Coffy 1973 and Foxy Brown 1974, both of which also starred Grier in the title roles.

Jackie Brown Pam Grier is a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline, the latest step down for her career, since she used to work for larger airlines. To make ends meet, she smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie Samuel L. Jackson, a blackmarket gun runner living in the Los Angeles area under the ATFs close watch, forcing him to use couriers.Ordell learns that another of his couriers, Beaumont Livingston Chris Tucker, has been arrested. Assuming that Livingston will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for bail with bondsman Max Cherry Robert Forster, then coaxes Livingston into a car trunk and murders him. ........

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