Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
Pam Grier
Jackie Brown
Samuel L. Jackson
Ordell Robbie
Robert De Niro
Louis Gara
Bridget Fonda
Melanie Ralston
Michael Keaton
Ray Nicolette
Robert Forster
Max Cherry
Michael Bowen
Mark Dargus
Chris Tucker
Beaumont Livingston
LisaGay Hamilton
Sheronda
Tommy Lister Jr.
Winston
Hattie Winston
Simone
Sid Haig
Judge
Aimee Graham
Amy – Billingsley Sales Girl
Ellis Williams
Cockatoo Bartender
Tangie Ambrose
Billingsley Sales Girl #2
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
Raynelle – Ordell's Junkie Friend
Venessia Valentino
Cabo Flight Attendant
Diana Uribe
Anita Lopez
Renee Kelly
Cocktail Waitress
Elizabeth McInerney
Bartender at Sam's
Colleen Mayne
Girl at Security Gate
Laura Lovelace
Steakhouse Waitress
Christine Lydon
Tec-9 Sidney – Chicks Who Love Guns
Julia Ervin
Steyr AUG Cindy – Chicks Who Love Guns
Juliet Long
AK-47 Gloria – Chicks Who Love Guns
Michelle Berube
Baretta 12S Brittany – Chicks Who Love Guns
Gillian White
Mossberg 500 Tammy Jo – Chicks Who Love Guns
Candice Briese
The Deputy
Gary Mann
The Deputy
Jeffrey Deedrick
The Sheriff
Roy Nesvold
The Sheriff
Herbert Hans Wilmsen
The Sheriff
Mary Ann Schmidt
Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Glendon Rich
Restaurant Regular (uncredited)
Denise Crosby
Public Defender (uncredited)
Quentin Tarantino
Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited)
Director, Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino
Novel
Elmore Leonard
June 16, 2012
Quentin Tarantino, a genius who brought us Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs returned with Jackie Brown, a tale of deception in the world of drugs-smuggling business. Heavily inspired by the 1970’s blaxploitation flicks, it tells the story of a stewardess, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) who was pinned inside the cash-smuggling business as she’s tormented between two choices, becoming a cash-mule and in the end snitching her own boss or being smart by keeping the money for herself. It’s quite rare to see a film where the leading role is a female. Even though the plot relies quite much on Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch, Tarantino really did great in giving his own personal touch to the existing materials by adding up a fine composition of clever dialogue, dark humor, and even the ultra violence in the forms of gun-battling badasses, drugs, and absolutely very graphic language, making it absolutely a typical Tarantino flick.
This film also possessed its own controversies that put Tarantino in the prosecuted seat because of his frequent use of the word “nigger”. This serious accusation was made by Spike Lee who furiously (while busy counting) noted that was used 38 times, excessively, throughout the film and he claimed that it’s an abuse and definitely an insult to black people. Apart from the above accusation, in my opinion, Jackie Brown, with its strong casts from Pam Grier, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forester, and Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton and Robert De Niro really add up to the greatness of the film. The way I see it, every cast here is given a complex set of character for us to study. Both De Niro and Keaton, despite their small roles, they remain favorable and memorable.