13 Facts About Jackie Brown

1.

Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier in the title role, along with Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro in supporting roles.

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2.

Jackie Brown negotiates a deal with Ordell whereby she pretends to help the authorities while smuggling in $550,000 of his money.

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3.

Jackie Brown informs Jackie and she confronts Ordell, who states he used Simone Hawkins to secure his money as backup.

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4.

Jackie Brown enters a dressing room in a department store to try on a suit.

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5.

Jackie Brown has told Ordell she will swap bags there with Melanie, under the nose of Nicolette, who thinks the exchange will occur in the food court.

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6.

Jackie Brown takes $10,000 she separated before entering the mall and places it on top of the bag she gives Melanie as a bonus.

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7.

Jackie Brown loses his temper and kills her, confessing this to Ordell when meeting him.

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8.

Cherry goes to Ordell's house and tells him that Jackie Brown, frightened, is waiting in Cherry's office with the money for him.

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9.

In Jackie Brown, Grier glides by blue tiles in the same spot on a moving sidewalk in the same direction to a soaring soul music song, "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack, which is from the film of the same name that was a part of the blaxploitation genre, just like Foxy Brown and Coffy.

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10.

Jackie Brown previously read for the Pulp Fiction character Jody, but Tarantino did not believe audiences would find it plausible for Eric Stoltz to yell at her.

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11.

Jackie Brown asked if he had put them up because she was coming to read for his film, and he responded that he was actually planning to take them down before her audition, to avoid making it look like he wanted to impress her.

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12.

Jackie Brown has attracted criticism for its heavy utterance of the racial slur "nigger".

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13.

Soundtrack album for Jackie Brown, entitled Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture, was released on December 9,1997.

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