Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a .. Read more
| Starring | Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Robert Forster |
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| Director | Quentin Tarantino |
| Genres | Drama |
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I can just about understand what the French see in Jerry Lewis, why the Americans embraced Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, and how some people believe Lee Evans is a comedy genius. But Chris Tucker I just don't get. Least, not as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour films, which is the only role he's played in the last decade. (I seem to remember I enjoyed seeing him get shot in the trunk in Jackie Brown.) They paid him $25 million to reprise this role for second time, so it's obvious Read more
A middle-aged man and a woman - Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter - meet at a wedding. He's flirtatious. She plays along. Her husband is a cardiologist back in London. She came over to New York at the last minute, an alternate bridesmaid for a friend she used to know. The man says he's seen her before: he has a picture of her reading a book on a summer's day somewhere. He remembers coming up and dragging her away to the picnic - he can even describe what she was wearing. But what was the... Read more