1997 · crime · drama
Jackie Brown
Directed by Quentin Tarantino2h 34m1997
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.
Our read: Jackie Brown (1997) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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