Jackie Brown

"Six players on the trail of a half million in cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?"

Dec 25 1997 R 2h 34m
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

Plot

The middle-aged stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolet and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange of her freedom. Meanwhile Ordell asks the 56-year-old Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects of Ordell's intention and plots a complicated confidence game with Max to steal half a million dollars from Ordell.

Written by

Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard

Directed by

Quentin Tarantino

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Mighty Mighty Afrodite Productions, Lawrence Bender Productions, A Band Apart, Miramax

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 24 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
387,579
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
62
Popularity
NA