Starring: - Pam Grier
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Robert Forster
Description:
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.
1. Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack
2. Beaumont's Lament - (dialogue)
3. Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
4. Melanie, Simone And Sharonda - (dialogue)
5. Who Is He (And What Is He To You?) - Bill Withers
6. Tennessee Stud - Johnny Cash
7. Natural High - Bloodstone
8. Long Time Woman - Pam Grier
9. Detroit 9000 - (dialogue)
10. Letter To The Firm, (Holy Matrimony) - Foxy Brown
11. Street Life - Randy Crawford
12. Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time - The Delfonics
13. Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots
14. Inside My Love - Minnie Riperton
15. Just Ask Melanie - (dialogue)
16. Lions And The Cucumber, The - The Vampire Sound Incorporation
17. Monte Carlo Nights - Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods
Jackie Brown
