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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788830532
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788830538
Label: Miramax Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Miramax Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Running Time: 154 minutes
Sales Rank: 3722
Studio: Miramax Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1997
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Quentin Tarantino presents the premiere of the JACKIE BROWN COLLECTOR'S SERIES DVD, complete with your favorite award-winning movie, all-star cast, and never-before-seen footage. What do a sexy stewardess (Pam Grier), a street-tough gun runner (Samuel L. Jackson), a lonely bail bondsman (Academy Award®-nominee Robert Forster), a shifty ex-con (Robert DeNiro), an earnest federal agent (Michael Keaton), and a stoned-out beach bunny (Bridget Fonda) have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are ... who's getting played ... and who's gonna make the big score! Combining an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor, Tarantino scores again with the entertaining JACKIE BROWN!
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The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more 'rum' than 'punch' and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country. The money belongs to Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend--a loose term with Ordell--Louis (Robert De Niro) is just taking up space and could be interested in the money. However, his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordell's doped-up girl (Bridget Fonda). Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40s-ish flight attendant (Pam Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's working for them. The end result is rarely in doubt, and what is left is two hours of Tarantino's expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town.
Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture and language, something he has a gift and passion for. He said this film is for an older audience although the language and drug use may put them off. The film is not a salute to Grier's blaxploitation films beyond the musical score. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster: two neo-stars glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work. --Doug Thomas
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Rating:  - Oh so cool with style to spare; one of Tarantino's best moves...
Quinton Tarantino is one of those directors you either love or hate, but there is no denying that he has talent, and what makes his talent even more obvious is his rich sense of style. Tarantino has a very unique charm that he layers his films with, giving them such warm originality.
Much like with directors Baz Luhrmann and David Fincher, a Quinton Tarantino film is undeniably a film by Quinton Tarantino.
With that said; the fact that some have criticized `Jackie Brown' for being a change of pace or unlike Tarantino's more successful films (`Pulp Fiction' and `Reservoir Dogs') is rather preposterous, for if you truly look at the film in all it's technical aspects you can't help but see Tarantino shining through in every frame.
It bares his name, thus it bares his soul.
The film tells the story of Ordell Robbie; arms dealer. Ordell is a ruthless man who takes nothing from no one, so when stewardess Jackie Brown is arrested smuggling Ordell's money he immediately takes the defensive. He contacts bail bondsman Max Cherry in order to bail Jackie out, but his plans to kill her are thwarted when she proposes a deal. Ordell is trying to smuggle in a half-million dollars into the states, and he was planning on using Jackie to do so; yet the feds have already offered Jackie a deal of her own, if she can give them Ordell. Working both sides she concocts a plan where she can `get out of jail free', keep her life and (if all goes right) keep the money. ... Read More
Rating:  - Might Be Quentin's Best....
4 and 1/2 Stars.
The story of a 44 yr old black woman struggling to get over a criminal past and a mid-life crisis serves as Quentin Tarantino's follow up to his super successful 'Pulp Fiction'. This, a much more character driven piece, is probably his most realistic and linear film of the five he's completed.
There's not much to say here. The movie is so entertaining. There is a terrific heist plot going on but what really makes the film are the 'hang-out' scenes, the incredible dialogue and relationships that exist between the characters. This is what inspires multiple viewings of the film, the chance to see these guys interact with each other. The acting comes off as realistic and humorous which makes the film, although tense and suspenseful at times, a comforting story to watch.
Funny, sly, clever, the movie is thoroughly enjoyable.
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Rating: - Quentin Tarantino does it again,
Jackie Brown is one of the most underrated movies to be released in 1997. Quentin Tarantino made a gritty adult film which featured one of the most underrated actress of the sevnties Pam Grier. While the film isn't as violent as Dogs or Fiction. Samuel L. Jackson gives a great performance and the cameo from Chris Tucker is hilarous
Rating: - Classic Tarantino
'Jackie Brown' has suffered from the case of being an amazing film that's less amazing than the other amazing works of the director, in this case Quentin Tarantino. Because of this it's amazingly underrated but by no means is a weak film. The film revolves around the story of flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) who works out a scheme with a bailbondsman (Robert Forster) to swindle a massive cash smuggle from under the nose of both the DEA and drug/gun runner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson in yet another amazing Tarantino flick performance) for whom the money was for. It doesn't have the tension, rush, or paranoia of 'Pulp Fiction' or 'Reservoir Dogs' but those two set the standard so high that it's really not all that surprising that 'Jackie Brown' is essentially forgotten about. Bridget Fonda, Robert DeNiro, Chris Tucker, and Michael Keaton all have standout minor roles as well. Highly recommended.
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