Jackie Brown

A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.

• Director:Quentin Tarantino
• Genre:Crime / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:154 minutes

Cast

Pam Grier : Jackie Brown
Samuel L. Jackson : Ordell Robbie
Robert Forster : Max Cherry
Bridget Fonda : Melanie Ralston
Michael Keaton: Ray Nicolette

Set in Los Angeles in 1995, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline, the latest step down for her career in the airline industry. Despite the low pay, the job enables her to smuggle money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), a gun runner under the close watch of the A.T.F..

Ordell learns that another of his workers, Beaumont Livingston (Chris Tucker), has been arrested and, fearing that he will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for Beaumont’s bail and murders him. Acting on information Beaumont had indeed shared, A.T.F. agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and L.A.P.D. Detective Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) catch Jackie as she arrives in the U.S. with Ordell’s cash and some cocaine that Brown was unaware was stashed along with the cash. She initially refuses to deal with Nicolette and Dargus, and is sent to jail on possession of drugs with intent to sell.

Ordell, sensing Jackie may be just as likely to inform as Beaumont had been, arranges to bail her out. He returns to Max Cherry (Robert Forster), the same bail bondsman he used to arrange Beaumont’s release, to bail out Brown. Cherry arranges for Jackie’s bail and, only partly masking his physical attraction, offers to help her determine her legal options. Later that night, Ordell arrives at Jackie’s house in order to murder her, but using a gun she stole from Cherry, Jackie cuts a deal whereby she will pretend to help the authorities while still managing to smuggle $500,000 of Ordell’s money, enough to allow him to retire.

To carry out this plan, Ordell employs several others, a woman he lives with, Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda), Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), his friend and former cellmate, and a naïve Southern girl, Sheronda (Lisa Gay Hamilton). With Jackie’s help Nicolette arranges a sting to catch Ordell, though Jackie and Ordell plan to double cross him by diverting the actual money before Ray makes an arrest. Read more

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