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    Jackie Brown (1997)

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    “AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes”.

    Imaginatively dragging Elmore Leonard’s bestseller Rum Punch into his own postmodern universe peppered with quirky dialogue and cinematic references, director Quentin Tarantino makes this re-energised crime thriller a homage to, and an updating of, 1970s pulp fiction.

    jackiebrownBlaxploitation icon Pam Grier is great as Jackie Brown – the air hostess pressured into an entrapment scam after being arrested for smuggling cash and drugs into LAX for ruthless arms dealing acquaintance, Ordell (Samuel L Jackson).

    Realising that Ordell might be planning to keep her mouth shut for good, Jackie decides to use her feminine wiles to outsmart everyone wanting to exploit or kill her and comes up with a dicey, complicated plan to keep cops and crooks busy with each other while she escapes with $500,000.

    Tarantino draws maximum suspense from a superb cast that includes Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forster and Michael Keaton, and an array of visual techniques such as staging a key scene three times from three different points of view.

    The theme of ageing, of powers fading and last chances, runs through the film, notably in Ordell’s former cellmate, Louis, a man broken by the years, played sublimely by a dopey De Niro, and the bail bondsman with whom Jackie shares a tentative almost-romance, Max Cherry (Robert Forster – another example of Tarantino’s knack for resurrection casting).

    Complementing this breathlessly exciting down-and-dirty crime drama is a fabulous array of funk classics.

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    Jackie Brown
    Pam Grier
    Ordell Robbie
    Samuel L Jackson
    Max Cherry
    Robert Forster
    Melanie
    Bridget Fonda
    Ray Nicolette
    Michael Keaton
    Louis Gara
    Robert De Niro
    Mark Dargus
    Michael Bowen
    Beaumont Livingston
    Chris Tucker
    Sheronda
    Lisa Gay Hamilton
    Winston
    Tom “Tiny” Lister Jr
    Simone
    Hattie Winston
    Public defender
    Denise Crosby
    Judge
    Sid Haig
    Amy, Billingsley sales girl
    Aimee Graham
    Billingsley sales girl number two
    Tangie Ambrose
    Cockatoo bartender
    Ellis E Williams
    Raynelle, Ordell’s junkie friend
    T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
    Cabo flight attendant
    Venessia Valentino
    Anita Lopez
    Diana Uribe
    Cocktail waitress
    Renee Kelly
    Bartender at Sam’s
    Elizabeth McInerney
    Girl at security gate
    Colleen Mayne
    Steakhouse waitress
    Laura Lovelace

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    Quentin Tarantino

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