JACKIE BROWN

Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes Click to Expand Credits: Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, and Michæl Keaton. Directed by Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo Navarro. Produced by Lawrence Bender.

If you’re expecting some hopped-up blaxploitation extravaganza, you’re about to be disappointed. Quentin actually made a REAL movie, with believable characters and performances, rather than just repositories for clever dialog. He should keep adapting Elmore Leonard novels if it forces him to grow up. Who knew? What next? Kevin Smith directing Henry James? Pam Grier is amazing. Samuel L. Jackson better be careful, though. He’s going to get typecast if he keeps playing Ice-T.

Posted on December 15, 1997 in Reviews by Ron Wells

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