Danny DeVito as The Man Getting His BagĪfter completing Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary acquired the film rights to Elmore Leonard's novels Rum Punch, Freaky Deaky, and Killshot.Quentin Tarantino as Voice On Answering Machine.Gillian Iliana Waters as Mossberg 500 Tammy Jo.Michael Bowen as LAPD Detective Mark Dargus.Michael Keaton as ATF Agent Ray Nicolette.They kiss goodbye and he watches her drive away. The charges against Jackie are dropped, and she plans a trip to Madrid. Nicolette, Dargus, and Winston hiding in the back, ambush him and shoot him dead. Ordell holds Max at gunpoint as they enter his office. Max goes to Ordell's house and tells him that Jackie, frightened, is waiting in Max's office with the money. Ordell instructs Max to tell Jackie that Ordell will kill them if she does not return the money and that if she goes to the police, he will name her as an accessory. When Louis recalls seeing Max at the shopping mall, Ordell, furious, kills Louis. Louis tells Ordell, who discovers that most of the money is missing. In the parking lot, Melanie mocks Louis for forgetting where they parked. Jackie runs to the food court and finds Nicolette, claiming Melanie burst into the dressing room and stole the money. Jackie takes $10,000 and places it on top of the bag she gives Melanie as a bonus. The bag contains only $40,000 Jackie leaves the rest in the dressing room for Max. Though she has told Nicolette the exchange will take place in the food court, she has told Ordell she will swap bags in the dressing room. Jackie enters a dressing room in a department store to try on a suit. He reluctantly recruits Melanie to perform the swap instead. On the day of the transfer, Ordell discovers that Simone has left town with the $10,000. He informs Jackie and she confronts Ordell, who states he used Simone Hawkins, one of his contacts, to secure his money as a backup. After Jackie leaves, Max observes an unknown woman swap bags with Sheronda. During a test run, Jackie smuggles in $10,000, with Nicolette and Dargus aware, to swap with Sheronda, Ordell's live-in girlfriend, at a shopping mall. Jackie plans to keep the $500,000 for herself. Unaware of the plan to smuggle in $550,000, Nicolette and Dargus devise a sting to catch Ordell during a transfer of $50,000. Louis tells Ordell, but Ordell replies that he is not concerned about her. Meanwhile, Melanie Ralston, one of Ordell's women, attempts to convince Louis to betray Ordell and take the money for themselves. Ordell brings in Louis Gara, a criminal associate, and former cellmate just released from prison. She negotiates a deal with Ordell: she will pretend to help the authorities while smuggling in $550,000 of Ordell's money. Ordell arrives at Jackie's apartment, but she pulls out a gun she stole from Max's glovebox. After Jackie is sent to jail, Ordell hires Max to bail her out. To prevent Beaumont from talking to the police, Ordell kills him.Īcting on information Beaumont had already given them, ATF agent Ray Nicolette and LAPD detective Mark Dargus intercept Jackie with Ordell's cash and a bag of cocaine. When Ordell's courier, Beaumont Livingston, is arrested, he hires bail bondsman Max Cherry to bail him out. Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a gun runner in Los Angeles. It was released on December 25, 1997, received positive reviews and grossed $74 million worldwide. It earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Forster, and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. Jackie Brown revitalized the careers of Grier and Forster, neither of whom had been cast in a lead role for many years. It is the only feature-length film that Tarantino has adapted from another work. Jackie Brown pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), both of which also starred Grier. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro appear in supporting roles. It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who is caught smuggling money. Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch.
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