Jackie Brown Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Genres: Crime
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Quentin_Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore_Leonard's 1995 Rum_Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel_L._Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget_Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert_De_Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael_Keaton) and cop Mark Dargus (Michael_Bowen) bust stewardess Jackie Brown (Pam_Grier), who was smuggling money into the country for Ordell. Ordell springs Jackie, but when middle-aged bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert_Forster) picks her up at the jail, he's attracted to her, and they choose a romantic route with detours. Mistrust and suspicions surface after Jackie pits Ordell and the cops against each other, convincing Ordell that she's going to double-cross the cops. Tarantino commented on the film's budget: "Jackie Brown only cost 12 million. You can't lose. You absolutely, positively can't lose. And you don't have to compromise." Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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