Jackie Brown

Year:	1997
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Crime, Thriller
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.6 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	25 Have Seen


Director	Quentin Tarantino
Selected Cast	Pam Grier as Jackie Brown
	Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie
	Robert Forster as Max Cherry
	Bridget Fonda as Melanie Ralston
	Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolette
	Robert De Niro as Louis Gara
Producer	Lawrence Bender
Writer	Quentin Tarantino
Soundtrack	The Delfonics
	Bill Withers
	The Grass Roots
	Johnny Cash
	Bloodstone
	Foxy Brown
	Bobby Womack
	Pam Grier
	Roy Ayers
	The Meters
	The Guess Who

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Jackie Brown - Miramax - UK

VHS

Jackie Brown - Miramax - USA (1998)

DVD

Jackie Brown - Miramax - USA (2002)

DVD

Jackie Brown - Egmont Film - Sweden

DVD

Jackie Brown - TF1 Vidéo - France (1999)

Blu-ray

Jackie Brown - TF1 Vidéo - France (2009)

Blu-ray

Jackie Brown - Paramount - USA (2020)

Blu-ray

Jackie Brown - Roadshow Entertainment - Australia (2012)

DVD

Jackie Brown - Castello Lopes Multimédia - Portugal (2000)

DVD

Jackie Brown - Roadshow Entertainment - Australia (1999)

DVD

Jackie Brown - RCV - Netherlands (1999)

DVD

Jackie Brown - Castello Lopes Multimédia - Portugal (2000)

VHS

Jackie Brown - IP Video - Bulgaria (1999)

DVD

Jackie Brown - Miramax - Germany (2011)

VHS

Jackie Brown - Bonton - Czech Republic (2001)

DVD Box Set

Quentin Tarantino Action Box - Roadshow Entertainment - Australia (2000)

DVD Box Set

Crime Pack - Emon - Spain (2013)

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Comments and Reviews


zabadak 25th Sep 2022		From Independent mailshot, 22/09/22: Is Jackie Brown an apology to Pam Grier? A celebration? I’ve always felt that it’s a combination of both – Quentin Tarantino, as a director, not only has his famous reverence for the films and genres that formulate his own creative voice, but for the stars that adorned his childhood walls. He LOVES actors. Adores them. His track record for rebooting careers, à la John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, isn’t just an uncanny ability to mine his audience’s own lingering sentiments. He casts these stars as a display of his affection. And there is perhaps no one, in his entire filmography, who is shown more affection than Pam Grier. Jackie Brown is utterly mesmerised by her. Dressed in that cerulean blue air stewardess outfit, designed by Mary Claire Hannan, that always pops against the muted colours around her, she glides through that famous opening tracking shot, and every scene beyond it, like she’s the literal centre of the universe. Even at her most dishevelled, fresh out of jail, Tarantino hits play on Bloodstone’s “Natural High” as Max Cherry (Robert Forster) looks on enraptured. But this isn’t the audience’s or Tarantino’s gaze as that of pure sexual desire (not that she doesn’t look incredible). Now (I hope) that the film is increasingly recognised as the director’s best, as a more mature and less desperate to impress entry into his filmography, we’re able to better appreciate how much the film acknowledges Grier’s own thorny relationship with the film industry – which adulated her as a star and exploited her name in equal measure. Jackie – smart, funny, self-empowered Jackie – has the men in her life wrapped around her finger, able to carefully manipulate their greed for her own benefit. But this comes after a lifetime of insecurity and abandonment. She’s only in this mess because she once agreed to cart drugs for her now ex-husband, an act of loyalty that was returned with a ruined career and years spent fighting to keep her life together working for a budget airline. “I always feel like I’m starting over,” Jackie offhandedly comments at one point. I can imagine how the same must have always been true for Grier, who herself was never handed the same kind of career security as her white peers. Jackie Brown was just that small attempt to remind us of what she deserves. :happy:



zabadak 14th Sep 2022		Back in the cinema at the BFI :happy:

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