Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) | 
| Actors: Tangie Ambrose, Michael Bowen, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forster
Studio: Miramax Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  243 reviews
Sales Rank: 2886
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 154 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: D23540D
ISBN: 0788830538
UPC: 786936161564
EAN: 9780788830532
ASIN: B000068DBD
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1997
Release Date: August 20, 2002
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Run time: 154 minutes Rating: R
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The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more "rum" than "punch" and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country. The money belongs to Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend--a loose term with Ordell--Louis (Robert De Niro) is just taking up space and could be interested in the money. However, his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordell's doped-up girl (Bridget Fonda). Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40s-ish flight attendant (Pam Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's working for them. The end result is rarely in doubt, and what is left is two hours of Tarantino's expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town. Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture and language, something he has a gift and passion for. He said this film is for an older audience although the language and drug use may put them off. The film is not a salute to Grier's blaxploitation films beyond the musical score. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster: two neo-stars glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work. --Doug Thomas
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 Jackie Brown June 20, 2009
M. Rivera (Marietta, GA)
DVD was dirty and sticky. It does not play well in any machine and am unable to clean it to make it work.
 Jackie Brown Vhs- Overhyped. June 6, 2009
Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
The only good about the movie is the cast, DeNiro, Ms.Pam Grier, other than that, the movie is too long, Again Quentin taratino always messes up movies. Not sure why he makes them. And his style is overhyped over the top.
Movie is over two hours and not much else. Gives the actors a bad name.
 Quality April 26, 2009
Macaveli
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Product was not 100% in good condition. There were a few fuzzy scenes in the movie. Also there is nonremovable scuff/scratch mark in the inner circle of DVD on the back.
 Cool Film. "Gotta Absolutely Gotta Kill Every Motherf---er In This Town." Crisp Dialogue & Hitchcockian Story. April 19, 2009
HAMLET
Pam Grier, star of blaxploitaition movies such as "Foxy Brown," leads an all-star cast in this Hitchcockian story full of crisp, fresh & witty dialogue and twists and turns. Unfortunately, the movie moved a little slow for me, though I've seen "Kill Bill" & loved it. That's why I'm giving it 4 stars. Better than "Scarface." That movie was a piece of crap. Rated R, but should've been PG-13.
 Tarantino Surpasses Himself Again!!! February 23, 2009
Van T. Roberts (Columbus, Mississippi, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're expecting more of "Pulp Fiction" from writer & director Quentin Tarantino in "Jackie Brown," the cult moviemaker's first full-fledged cinematic opus since "Pulp Fiction," then you may feel sorely let down by this extreme chick flick. Neither as sadistic nor as sexually bizarre as either "Reservoir Dogs" or "Pulp Fiction," "Jackie Brown" represents something of a departure for the talented filmmaker. Indeed, an initial viewing may leave you with the impression that "Jackie Brown" suffers from a sketchy plot and lackluster action. Nothing could be farther from the truth. While "Jackie Brown" covers familiar "Pulp Fiction" territory, Tarantino emphasizes characterization at the expense of ultra-violence and implausibility. Furthermore, "Jackie Brown" may be Tarantino's most accomplished film in terms of visual storytelling and the performances are simply unforgettable.
Veteran African-American actress Pam Grier, who made a name for herself during the 1970s with blaxploitation movies such as "The Big Doll House" (1971) and "Coffy" (1973), plays the eponymous heroine. As a 44-year old woman, Jackie works as a flight attendant for the worst airline, a shuttle that flies between the United States and Mexico. Life has not exactly been rosy for Jackie. She resorts to smuggling large sums of U.S. currency into the country that belongs to a treacherous arms dealer, Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson of "Pulp Fiction") who stashes his cash in Cabo San Lucas. As the film opens, prickly ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton of "Batman") busts Jackie for sneaking $50-thousand in past customs. Nicolette and his LAPD partner Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen of "Iron Eagle") put the squeeze on her, especially after they discover a two ounce baggie of cocaine hidden in with the bucks.
Jackie finds herself in jail, and Robbie posts her bond. Robbie hires bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster of "Medium Cool") to spring her. Robbie follows an unmistakable pattern. Paranoid about going back to jail, Robbie ices any of his cohorts who come into contact with the law. Jackie got busted thanks to a tip the cops squeezed out of Robbie's low-life henchman Beaumount (Chris Tucker of "Rush Hour"). After Cherry gets Beaumont out of jail, Robbie kills Beaumont and hides the corpse in the trunk of an abandoned car. Robbie is so leery of his buddies that he brings in an old-time convicted bank robber, Lewis Gara (Robert De Niro of "Goodfellas") and uses him for his latest scheme.
Once out of jail, Jackie cooperates with the ATF. She plans to bring in more of Robbie's dough and be a part of a sting against him. She tell Robbie what the law wants her to do and then presents him with a deal that will get him the rest of his money. She'll bring in all his money at once when the cops aren't expecting it, and they'll pull a switch before the fuzz could figure it out. Robbie is leery again, but eventually he agrees. Meanwhile, Jackie pulls a fast one not only on the cops but also Robbie and get away with a fortune in cold cash. She devises another plan with Max Cherry.
While there are no overlapping plots, "Jackie Brown" is Tarantino's best job of writing. He lays the story out in clear, simple terms and never needlessly complicates the action as he did in "Pulp Fiction." You won't get lost in the middle of this action comedy. Of course, the language is as corrosive as all get out. The F-word is used at least 131 times, and the S-word is heard as many as 69 times. Tarantino's fans will appreciate the usual profane, inane dialogue that he writes so well, especially Robbie's instructions to Gara about how to unlock his car.
Written and directed by Tarantino, "Jackie Brown" is based on best-selling novelist Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch," published in 1992. Surprisingly, Tarantino removed two major shoot-outs that add bang-bang action to Leonard's book. Robbie wants to kill a Nazi skin head and heist his huge arsenal of firearms. What might have made for a distinctively "Pulp Fiction" moment, however, Tarantino scrapped. Tarantino also eliminated a gunfight between Nicolette and Robbie's gunmen. Usually, Hollywood filmmakers go out of their way to beef up Leonard's novel. Consider the horrendous misfire that Burt Reynolds produced from Leonard's entertaining novel "Stick." While "Stick" boasted the trademark Leonard dialogue (he c0-scripted), the movie featured violence that the book did not contain. Although Tarantino doesn't capture the quirky Leonard dialogue, he does a better job of transferring "Rum Punch" to the screen than either Reynolds did with "Stick" or Barry Sonnenfeld with "Get Shorty."
As Jackie Brown, busty Pam Grier is ideally cast. Originally written for an Ann-Margret type (in "Rum Punch" she was named Jackie Burke), Tarantino has changed the racial composition of the heroine but retains the spirit of Leonard's heroine. "Jackie Brown" is one of those pictures where the heroine isn't fresh out of a Playboy centerfold, though Grier has the obvious endowments. Instead, Tarantino uses her as a woman caught in the middle that wants and deserves to get out of a bad situation. Compared with previous Tarantino efforts, "Jackie Brown" represents a definite feminist turn of the screw.
The supporting cast is both diverse and fantastic. Although Robert Forster has almost vanished from the screen, his performance as Max Cherry is so good and straightforward--in a poker-faced way--that you forget that Forster is acting. Cherry may qualify as one of the few tough-guy male heroes who could serve as a role model. Meanwhile, Robert De Niro brings his customary thespian skill to his bank robber thug and delivers a fastidious performance that relies on his physical presence. Lastly, Chris Tucker has only a few moments on screen, but he is infectiously funny in his brief appearance.
"Jackie Brown" lasts over two hours, but nothing obstructs the straight ahead plotting. If you're counting, only three characters get shot, and Tarantino stages each shooting incident off-screen or is shown from an angle that prevents the viewer from seeing much gore and violence.
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