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- BFI identifier480246
- Date1997 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisBased on the novel `Rum punch' by Elmore Leonard. Comedy-thriller about a black air stewardess who supplements her income by smuggling money for a ruthless arms dealer. Relates her efforts to hold on to her life and liberty. (Synopsis) An adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch". Ordell Robbie, an arms dealer, has decided to retire after stashing one more lump sum. Ordell gets rid of anyone in his way by shooting them, but things are not so straightforward when stewardess Jackie Brown tries to get out of a prison sentence by nailing Ordell. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Quentin Tarantino
Production Company: Miramax Films
Production Company: A Band Apart
view all - CastPam Grier (Jackie Brown)
Samuel L. Jackson (Ordell Robbie)
Robert Forster (Max Cherry)
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Title
Jackie Brown (Original)
Rum Punch (Help search)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-11413
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape - PD-16184
Poster: film - Single sheet portrait - PD-19942
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-4ph
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-uoz
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-rid
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-ric
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00m-r6i
view all - ArticlesArchitectural Design v70 n1 January 2000 - ArticleEmpire n106 April 1998 - Article, InterviewFilm Review April 1998 - ReviewCreative Screenwriting v5 n1 1998 - Articleview all
- Books
- Jackie Brown
Work - 480246 - 1997 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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