| | |  | Childrens & Family | Home » » Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Quentin Tarantino presents the premiere of the JACKIE BROWN COLLECTOR'S SERIES DVD, complete with your favorite award-winning movie, all-star cast, and never-before-seen footage. What do a sexy stewardess (Pam Grier), a street-tough gun runner (Samuel L. Jackson), a lonely bail bondsman (Academy Award®-nominee Robert Forster), a shifty ex-con (Robert DeNiro), an earnest federal agent (Michael Keaton), and a stoned-out beach bunny (Bridget Fonda) have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are ... who's getting played ... and who's gonna make the big score! Combining an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor, Tarantino scores again with the entertaining JACKIE BROWN! | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton | | Director:
| Quentin Tarantino | | Format:
| Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Miramax Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 154 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 20, 2002 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 253 reviews |
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 showcase of old school American style by Robert Forster and Pam Grier's noncracking beautyAug 31, 2010
Pam Grier has a very charming mouth and generally lovable way with people. Samuel L. Jackson is VERY VERY scary.
 A must see!Jul 08, 2010
I'm not one who usually watches movies more than once. I didn't see this movie until very recently, and I watched it I think five times in about the space of a week. (I picked up a used copy of the Two-Disc Collector's Edition - which is fantastic by the way - including a poster!)
I really like the film. It works on so many levels - for me. I love Tarantino's tradmarks; great score, great dialogue, refreshing great actors who the mainstream has left behind. And, I don't find the movie to be predictable despite what the official Amazon reviewer said. I realize this isn't a very strong review - but, in my opinion, it's a five star movie and I wanted to share that.
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Jackie BrownJan 07, 2010
Jackie supplements her meager income as a stewardess by smuggling cash into the U.S. for gunrunner Ordell Robbie--until the day an ATF agent and an L.A. cop bust her at the airport. The cops pressure her to help them bring down Ordell, threatening prison if she refuses. With a sympathetic bailbondsman, who understands her restlessness only too well, Jackie arrives at a bold almost foolhardy plan to play off these opposing forces against each other. Matters are complicated by Ordell's confederates, Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston who have agendas of their own. By appearing to cooperate with both sides, Jackie attempts to outfox them both and walk away with a half million dollar payday. This is the movie that proves Tarantino is the real thing.
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Tarantino's Coming of Age.Nov 03, 2009
"Jackie Brown," Quentin Tarantino's third feature length film, finds the writer/director at perhaps his most straight-forward and mature. While he rejects the notion that he is maturing as a film-maker in an interview featured on the DVD, it is quite obvious that the man who created such cult classics as Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs was out to prove he wasn't merely a one-trick pony, and it paid off in one of his most character driven and rewarding efforts to date.
Adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel, Rum Punch, "Jackie Brown" is the story of an aging stewardess (Pam Grier) in trouble with the law who concocts a scheme to rip off an arms dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) of a cool $500,000. She of course needs the help of a bail bondsman (Robert Forster) whose midlife crisis takes a backseat to the crush he develops for her. On the surface, it appears to be just another heist film, but underneath all the layers, at its core, "Jackie Brown" is an unlikely love story from probably the last director you'd expect. While the job and the way it's carried out is a big part of the film, Tarantino knows well enough to allow his characters ample time to breathe, making it the sort of film where you forget for a while who you're watching and simply appreciate the unique personalities they bring to life.
It also helps, of course, that the film is filled to brim with a great cast of old and new, obscure and respectable. Robert De Niro has perhaps one of the most entertaining roles as an ex-con who keeps to himself, silently observing and judging the world he is getting reacquainted with. Bridget Fonda plays Samuel L. Jackson's sex-pot/pot-head surfer girl girlfriend with a dry sense of humor that bounces well off of De Niro's stone-cold demeanor. Grier and Forster, who were both dragged from the depths of obscurity only to find their careers slightly revitalized for the film are both in top form and go a long way in driving home the human nature of the plot. Michael Keaton, playing an ATF agent who would later appear as the same character in 1998's Out of Sight, is perhaps one of the film's greatest surprises, as he is in turns quirky and overly confident, while being clueless all the while.
While fans of Tarantino's more notorious fare will have a hard time seeing the brilliance of "Jackie Brown," it's a film that will no doubt please the palate of the viewer who craves rich characters, natural pacing and an engrossing plot, not to mention a killer soundtrack. Out of all of Tarantino's work, this is the one that is the most grounded in reality and, aside from Forster's Oscar nomination, deserved much more acclaim and credit than it was given. In a way, this is the cult classic in Tarantino's league of cult classics, and a film that certainly holds up time and time again.
A Fine Elmore Leonard AdapationOct 25, 2009
It has been many years since I saw this 1997 film and I had forgotten how good it was. Some of my favorite actors (Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and the lead Pam Grier) are in the film and Robert Forster won an Oscar nomination for his role as bailbondsman Max Cherry. Leonard's lead in the novel Rum Punch was a white woman: he agreed that Tarantino's selection of Pam Grier, a fixture in many blaxploitation films, was the right person to play opposite Jackson. Coming between Pulp Fiction (1994) and Kill Bill (2003-4), this film has not gotten the attention it deserves.
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