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Mood:
Clever Rough Suspenseful Tense
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Criminal Heroes Cons and Scams Heist Crimes Dishonesty
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Crime Thriller Drama Blaxploitation
Time/Period:
20th Century 90s
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Los Angeles USA Urban
Audience:
Boys' Night
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Award Winner Critically Acclaimed
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Episodic Nonlinear Twists and Turns Talky Strong Female Presence
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Pop Rock Soul
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Jackie Brown, 1997

Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Written by: Quentin Tarantino

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 154 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.6

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The mood of Jackie Brown is clever, tense, and rough. The plot centers around a heist, cons and scams, and criminal heroes. It is a thriller, crime, and drama movie. Stylistically, Jackie Brown is nonlinear, is episodic, and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Jackie Brown is set in Los Angeles. It happens in the 1990s. The musical score is soul, pop, and rock. Jackie Brown is based on a book. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that Jackie Brown includes drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.

Summary of Jackie Brown

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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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	25 December 1997
Runtime:	154 min

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Pam Grier

as Jackie Brown

Samuel L. Jackson

as Ordell Robbie

Robert Forster

as Max Cherry

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

The most exciting thing about Jackie Brown is the director's seamless transition to a less flashy, revealing style; it's well-suited to the more character-oriented focus of the film... an assured, accomplished, and very good film. Full Review

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by: Keith Phipps

Entertainment Weekly

Each scene is staged methodically, overdeliberately, as if it concealed some payoff zinger. But the zingers don't arrive. All we see is a reasonably clever Elmore Leonard caper that needed to be treated as fast, trashy fun. Full Review

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by: Owen Gleiberman

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worst tarantino

i didn't like it really much. i lost my attention pretty quickly and the actors were not likeable except for robert deniro. Read and rate it

26.August.2011
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by: heliolater
heliolater rated this movie4/10Disappointing

Another successful film by Tarantino.

This is a very cool crime film, made as only Tarantino knows how. I enjoyed the twists and turns in the plot, and the soundtrack is great. But in my opinion, it's not Tarantino at his best. This might not be a problem if he hadn't set high... Read and rate it

12.August.2008
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by: ralph.wiggum
ralph.wiggum rated this movie7/10Good

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