{"id":2762,"date":"2025-08-01T02:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:27:27","slug":"jackie-brown-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=2762","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Brown-1997"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jackie Brown-1997<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Pam Grier, Robert Forster<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 250 Films #124<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #356<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed January 9, 2016<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997) is a fantastic film and one of the few to have a solely female lead (Kill Bill Volumes I and II are the others) and successfully re-launched the careers of stars Pam Grier and Robert Forster after too many years on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Grier’s earlier films heavily influenced the 1970s blaxploitation genre.<\/p>\n

Jackie Brown is one of Tarantino’s more obscure films, but it is brilliant nonetheless and filled with slow, plodding yet tremendous scenes.<\/p>\n

Grier plays the title character, Jackie Brown, a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline who smuggles money from Mexico to the United States to supplement her income.<\/p>\n

When she is caught and threatened by the Feds to help them catch a much larger fish, she plots to use both sides to her advantage and walk away with the money.<\/p>\n

Jackie develops feelings, and a sweet relationship ensues with Max Cherry, a bondsman played by Forster.<\/p>\n

Mixed in with the plot are Tarantino staples: Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie, a crooked drug smuggler; Robert De Niro as Louis, a former cellmate of Ordell’s; and Bridget Fonda as Melanie, a dizzy stoner girl.<\/p>\n

As is always the case with Tarantino films, Jackie Brown features a stellar cast just chomping at the bit to deliver the best performances they can, aided by rich, crackling dialogue written for them.<\/p>\n

The writing is always fantastic in Tarantino films, and Jackie Brown has plenty of plot twists and turns.<\/p>\n

My favorite scene by far is the one involving the transfer of money at the local Mall. Rich with flavor and atmosphere, it is a marvel. Jackie and Max engage in small talk at the food court before the transfer is to take place- Jackie then goes to a fitting room where the “switch” will occur.<\/p>\n

Throughout this sequence, the tension is incredibly high, and the film turns into a nail-biter.<\/p>\n

Tarantino, not one to focus on a romantic storyline, gives Jackie Brown a unique quality by featuring the respectful and delicious romance between Jackie and Max. This adds layers to the mainly bloody and crime-laden film.<\/p>\n

In contrast to this relationship is the volatile relationship between Louis and Melanie, which ends in tragedy.<\/p>\n

I love how the film is set in Los Angeles. Sunny, bright, with a stuffy and superficial element to the action, mixing the beach and the hot weather with a crime story, manipulation, and double-crossing works so well.<\/p>\n

Giving aging Hollywood stars a deserving comeback, Tarantino weaves a complex, adventurous, and well-paced crime drama featuring veteran actors who deliver the goods.<\/p>\n

Jackie Brown (1997) is a treasure in a world of Tarantino’s other treasures and a must-have for all the director’s fans and fanatics.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Supporting Actor-Robert Forster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackie Brown-1997 Director Quentin Tarantino Starring Pam Grier, Robert Forster Top 250 Films #124 Scott’s Review #356 Reviewed January 9, 2016 Grade: A Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997) is a fantastic film and one of the few to have a solely female lead (Kill Bill Volumes I and II are the others) and successfully re-launched … Continue reading Jackie Brown-1997<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,225,192,11666,7464],"tags":[7893,1702,3265,10914,1973,1972,237,1067,782,1197,656],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1997-movie-reviews","category-crime-dramas","category-dramas","category-los-angeles","category-top-250-films","tag-124-favorite-films","tag-bridget-fonda","tag-lisa-gay-hamilton","tag-michael-bowen","tag-michael-keaton","tag-pam-grier","tag-quentin-tarantino-films","tag-robert-deniro","tag-robert-forster","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-tony-curtis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23408,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/23408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}