Jackie Brown: Book vs. Movie
Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown adapts Elmore Leonard's 1992 book Rum Punch. Pam Grier plays a flight attendant caught between federal agents and the arms dealer whose money she carries.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- Year
- 1992
- Pages
- 368Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 7 hr 54 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Cary Hite
Flight attendant Jackie Burke is arrested carrying money for gun dealer Ordell Robbie, leaving her to choose between a prison sentence and the danger of informing on her employer. Bail bondsman Max Cherry sees a woman worth helping, while Ordell sees a problem to contain. Jackie begins looking for a third option, using the proposed sting operation to work toward an escape on her own terms.
- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
- Writer
- Quentin Tarantino
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 2 hr 34 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
- Genre
- blaxploitation, Crime, crime drama, crime thriller, Drama, gangster, heist, independent, neo-noir, Suspense, Thriller
- IMDb
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Flight attendant Jackie Brown is caught carrying cash for arms dealer Ordell Robbie and faces a choice between prison and informing on a dangerous employer. With bail bondsman Max Cherry's help, she devises a plan that could satisfy the agents watching her while letting her escape Ordell's control. Making it work means keeping several suspicious people convinced that she is following their instructions.
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