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Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard.It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who smuggles money between the United States and Mexico.
In October 1933, Jackie Brown ran over and killed Margaret Thornley with his car. He did not receive any punishment whatsoever for taking her life. [7] The very next year, Brown actually found himself in trouble with the law when he was convicted of assault by occasioning bodily harm for biting a piece out of the ear of Louis Tarchman in a Manchester street after Tarchman had called him a ...
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star [2] (although, many believe Cheng Pei-pei actually holds that distinction [3] [4]), she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and ...
Jackie Brown announces its swagger in the opening scene, a perfectly-paced four-minute title sequence scored to Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street" that introduces us to our eponymous heroine ...
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American former actress. She is known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III (1990), Single White Female (1992), Singles (1992), Point of No Return (1993), It Could Happen to You (1994), City Hall (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), A Simple Plan (1998), Lake Placid (1999), and Kiss of the Dragon (2001).
Rum Punch is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard.The novel was adapted into the film Jackie Brown (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino. [1]The characters Ordell Robbie, Louis Gara, and Melanie Ralston first appeared in Leonard's novel The Switch, which itself has also been adapted as a film, Life of Crime, first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by ...
Jackie Brown is a wonderful homage to black exploitation films. This is a good film, and Spike hasn't made one of those in a few years." [185] Tarantino argued that black audiences appreciated his blaxploitation-influenced films more than some of his critics, and that Jackie Brown was primarily made for black audiences. [186]
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