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Jackie Brown
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay byQuentin Tarantino
Based on Rum Punch
by Elmore Leonard
Produced by Lawrence Bender
Starring
Cinematography Guillermo Navarro
Edited by Sally Menke
Production
company
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release dates
  • December 8, 1997 (1997-12-08)(Ziegfeld Theatre)
  • December 25, 1997 (1997-12-25)(United States)
Running time
154 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million [2]
Box office$74.7 million [2]

Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard. It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who smuggles money between the United States and Mexico. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro appear in supporting roles.

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Jackie Brown pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly Coffy and Foxy Brown , both of which also starred Grier. It is the only feature-length film directed by Tarantino that was based on another work. [3]

Jackie Brown was released in the United States on December 25, 1997, by Miramax Films. It received positive reviews and grossed $74.7 million worldwide on a $12 million budget. It earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Forster, and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. The film revitalized the careers of Grier and Forster, neither of whom had been cast in a lead role for many years.

Plot

Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbi, a gun runner in Los Angeles. When Ordell's bagman, Beaumont Livingston, is arrested, Ordell hires bail bondsman Max Cherry to bail him out. He then lures Beaumont into the trunk of a car and murders him.

Acting 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. After Jackie is sent to jail, Ordell has Max pay her bail. Ordell arrives at Jackie's apartment, but she pulls out a gun she stole from Max's glovebox. She negotiates a deal with Ordell: she will pretend to help the authorities while smuggling in the remaining $550,000 of Ordell's money.

Ordell replaces Beaumont with Louis Gara, a criminal associate and former cellmate who has just been released from prison. Melanie Ralston, one of Ordell's mistresses, asks Louis to betray Ordell and take the money for themselves. Louis tells Ordell, but Ordell replies that he is not concerned about her, given that he knows she’s not to be trusted completely.

Unaware of the plan to smuggle in $550,000, Nicolette and Dargus devise a sting to catch Ordell during a transfer of $50,000. Jackie plans to keep the $500,000 for herself. She recruits Max, offering him a cut. 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. After Jackie leaves, Max observes an unknown woman swap bags with Sheronda. He informs Jackie and she confronts Ordell, who reveals that he sent Simone Hawkins, another mule, to secure his money as a backup.

On the day of the transfer, Ordell discovers that Simone has left town with the $10,000. He reluctantly recruits Melanie to perform the swap instead. Jackie enters a dressing room in a department store to try on a suit. 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. The bag contains only $40,000; Jackie leaves the rest in the dressing room for Max. Jackie takes $10,000 and places it on top of the bag she gives to Melanie. Jackie runs to the food court and finds Nicolette, claiming Melanie burst into the dressing room and stole the money.

During the exchange, Melanie is uncooperative, and in the parking lot afterwards mocks Louis for forgetting where they parked. He loses his temper and fatally shoots her. Louis then tells Ordell, who discovers that most of the money is missing. When Louis recalls seeing Max at the shopping mall, an enraged Ordell kills him.

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. Max goes to Ordell's house, and tells him that Jackie, frightened, is waiting in Max's office with the money. Ordell holds Max at gunpoint as they enter his office. Jackie yells out that Ordell has a gun. Nicolette, Dargus, and Cherry's business partner Winston, who provided Max with Ordell’s location, hiding in the back, ambush him and shoot him dead. The charges against Jackie are dropped, and she plans a trip to Madrid. Max declines an invitation to join her. They kiss goodbye and he watches her drive away.

Cast

Production

Development

After completing Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary acquired the film rights to Elmore Leonard's novels Rum Punch , Freaky Deaky, and Killshot . Tarantino initially planned to film either Freaky Deaky or Killshot and have another director make Rum Punch, but changed his mind after re-reading Rum Punch, saying he "fell in love" with the novel all over again. [4] Killshot was later adapted into a film released in 2008, produced by Jackie Brown producer Lawrence Bender.

While adapting Rum Punch into a screenplay, Tarantino changed the ethnicity of the main character from white to black, as well as renaming her from Burke to Brown, titling the screenplay Jackie Brown. Tarantino hesitated to discuss the changes with Leonard, finally speaking with Leonard as the film was about to start shooting. Leonard loved the screenplay, considering it the best of the twenty-six screen adaptations of his novels and short stories, and also stating that it was possibly the best screenplay he had ever read. [4]

Tarantino's screenplay otherwise closely followed Leonard's novel, incorporating elements of Tarantino's trademark humor and pacing. [3] The screenplay was also influenced by blaxploitation films, but Tarantino said Jackie Brown is not a blaxploitation film. [4]

Jackie Brown alludes to Grier's career in many ways. The film's poster resembles those of Grier's films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) and includes quotes from both films. The typeface for the film's opening titles was also used for those of Foxy Brown; some of the background music is taken from these films, including four songs from Roy Ayers's original score for Coffy.[ citation needed ]

The film's opening sequence recreates that of The Graduate (1967), in which Dustin Hoffman passes wearily through Los Angeles International Airport past white tiles to a somber "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel. [5] In Jackie Brown, Grier glides by blue tiles in the same spot on a moving sidewalk in the same direction to a soaring soul music song, "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack, which is from the film of the same name that was a part of the blaxploitation genre, just like Foxy Brown and Coffy.[ citation needed ]

Casting

Tarantino wanted Pam Grier to play the title character. She previously read for the Pulp Fiction character Jody, but Tarantino did not believe audiences would find it plausible for Eric Stoltz to yell at her. [6] Grier did not expect Tarantino to contact her after the success of Pulp Fiction. [4] When she showed up to read for Jackie Brown, Tarantino had posters of her films in his office. She asked if he had put them up because she was coming to read for his film, and he responded that he was actually planning to take them down before her audition, to avoid making it look like he wanted to impress her. [4]

Several years after the release of the movie, Sylvester Stallone claimed that he turned down the role of Louis Gara. [7] Tarantino considered Paul Newman, Gene Hackman and John Saxon for the role of Max Cherry, before casting Robert Forster. [8] [9]

Out of Sight

While Jackie Brown was in production, Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on director Steven Soderbergh's 1998 film Out of Sight , an adaptation of Leonard's 1996 novel of the same name that also features the character of Ray Nicolette, and waited to see whom Tarantino would cast as Nicolette for Jackie Brown. [4] Michael Keaton was hesitant to take the part of Ray Nicolette, even though Tarantino wanted him for it. [4] Keaton subsequently agreed to play Nicolette again in Out of Sight, uncredited, appearing in one brief scene. Although the legal rights to the character were held by Tarantino and Miramax Films, as Jackie Brown had been produced first, Tarantino insisted that Miramax Films not charge Universal for using the character in Out of Sight, allowing the character's appearance without Miramax Films receiving financial compensation.[ citation needed ]

Reception

Critical response

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it an approval rating of 88% based on 96 reviews and an average rating of 7.60/10. The site's consensus is: "Although somewhat lackadaisical in pace, Jackie Brown proves to be an effective star vehicle for Pam Grier while offering the usual Tarantino wit and charm." [10] Metacritic gives the film a 64 out of 100 based on 23 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [11] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. [12]

Roger Ebert rated the film four out of four stars, writing that "Tarantino leaves the hardest questions for last, hides his moves, conceals his strategies in plain view, and gives his characters dialogue that is alive, authentic and spontaneous." [13] He also ranked the film as one of his favorites of 1997. [14] Movie critic Mark Kermode for BBC Radio Five Live lists Jackie Brown as his favorite film by Quentin Tarantino. [15] Samuel L. Jackson, who appears frequently in Tarantino's films, named his character of Ordell Robbie as one of his favorite roles. [16]

Box office

The film grossed $39.7 million in the United States and Canada and $35.1 million in other territories for a total gross of $74.7 million, against a budget of $12 million. [17] [2] In its opening weekend, the film grossed $9.3 million, finishing 5th at the box office. [18]

Controversy

Jackie Brown has attracted criticism for its use of the racial slur "nigger", which is used 38 times, [19] the most in any Tarantino film until Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). During an interview with Manohla Dargis, Tarantino said: "The minute any word has that much power, as far as I'm concerned, everyone on the planet should scream it. No word deserves that much power." [20] The filmmaker Spike Lee criticized the film's use of the word, [21] and said: "I'm not against the word, and I use it, but not excessively. And some people speak that way. But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made –an honorary black man? And he uses it in all his pictures: Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs  ... I want Quentin to know that all African-Americans do not think that word is trendy or slick." Lee took his concerns to the film's producers, Harvey Weinstein and Lawrence Bender. [19]

The film critic Pascoe Soyurz said, "I wouldn't necessarily align myself with Spike Lee, but I do have some reservations about a film of this kind coming out at this time. It seems to me there's a kind of culture-vulture feel to it. I'm concerned about the whole 'blaxploitation' thing. Hollywood is a dream factory but it was Hollywood that created some of the most negative images of black people, which had major effects on the way we were perceived around the world." He concludes by stating that Tarantino's use of the word "devalues the word and the word has a lot of significance." [22]

Awards

Grier and Jackson were nominated for Golden Globe Awards (Grier for Best Actress –Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Jackson for Best Actor –Motion Picture Musical or Comedy). Forster was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was also nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. In 2008, the film was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, ranking in at #215. [23]

At the 48th Berlin International Film Festival, Jackson won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award. [24]

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipientsResult
Academy Awards March 23, 1998 Best Supporting Actor Robert ForsterNominated
Awards Circuit Community Awards3rd ACCAsBest Adapted ScreenplayQuentin TarantinoNominated
Best ActressPam GrierNominated
Best Supporting ActorRobert ForsterNominated
Best Film EditingSally MenkeNominated
Honorable Mentions (The Next Ten Best Picture Contenders)Nominated
Berlin International Film Festival February 11 to 22, 1998 Golden Berlin Bear Quentin TarantinoNominated
Silver Bear for Best Actor Samuel L. JacksonWon
Chicago Film Critics Association March 1, 1998 Best Actress Pam GrierNominated
Best Supporting Actor Robert ForsterNominated
Golden Globe Award January 18, 1998 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Samuel L. JacksonNominated
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Pam GrierNominated
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards32nd KCFCC AwardsBest Supporting ActorRobert ForsterWon
Saturn Awards 24th Saturn Awards Best Actress Pam GrierNominated
Best Supporting Actor Robert ForsterNominated
Screen Actors Guild Award March 8, 1998 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Pam GrierNominated

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album for Jackie Brown, entitled Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture , was released on December 9, 1997.

Songs by a variety of artists are heard throughout the film, including The Delfonics' "La-La Means I Love You" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)", Bill Withers' "Who Is He", The Grass Roots' "Midnight Confessions", Johnny Cash's "Tennessee Stud", Bloodstone's "Natural High", and Foxy Brown's "(Holy Matrimony) Married to the Firm". There are several songs included that were featured in blaxploitation films as well, including Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street", from the film of the same name, and Pam Grier's "Long Time Woman", from her 1971 film The Big Doll House . The original soundtrack also features separate tracks with dialogue from the film. Instead of using a new film score, Tarantino incorporated Roy Ayers' funk score from the film Coffy .

A number of songs used in the film do not appear on the soundtrack, such as "Cissy Strut" (The Meters), and "Piano Impromptu" (Dick Walter).

Home media

The Special Edition DVD, released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment in 2002, includes an introduction from Tarantino, an hour-long retrospective interview, a subtitle trivia track, and soundtrack chapter selection, a half-hour making-of documentary ("How It Went Down"), the entire "Chicks Who Love Guns" video as seen in the film, many deleted and alternate scenes, including an alternate opening title sequence, Siskel and Ebert's review, Jackie Brown appearances on MTV, TV spots and theatrical trailers, written reviews, and articles and filmographies, and over an hour of trailers for Pam Grier and Robert Forster films dating from the 1960s onwards. [4] The box also includes a mini-poster of the film, similar to the one above, and on the back of that, two other mini-posters –one of Grier, the other of Forster, both similar to the album cover.

Although the Special Edition DVD's back cover states that the film is presented in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, it was actually shot with a 1.85:1 ratio, the only Tarantino-directed film to date shot in such a format with the exception of his segment in the film Four Rooms , "The Man from Hollywood".

On October 4, 2011, Miramax released Jackie Brown on Blu-ray Disc along with Pulp Fiction. The film is presented in 1080p HD in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. The disc was the result of a new licensing deal with Miramax and Lionsgate. [25]

Following Paramount Global's 49% stake in Miramax, the film was reissued on Blu-ray and DVD by Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment on September 22, 2020. [26] In 2023, Lionsgate announced that they had purchased the distribution rights to Jackie Brown, along with both Kill Bill films; all three films were released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 10, 2023, with 4K restorations scheduled for release on Blu-ray and digitally on January 21, 2025. [27] [28] [29]

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