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Jackie Brown is a 1997 motion picture, the third film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Pam Grier and Robert Forster. Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton are also featured.
The screenplay is based on the novel Rum Punch by United States novelist Elmore Leonard, although Tarantino made considerable changes to the story line and characters.
The title character (Grier) is an airline flight attendant who gets involved in a plot by government agents to shake down and/or arrest a drug and arms trafficker (Jackson).
As is true of all Tarantino fims, the film features a substantial amount of violence and profanity. It also received some criticism for the frequent use of the word "nigger" in the dialogue.
Also noteworthy was the fact that Tarantino chose to cast in the principal roles Grier and Forster, both of whom were veteran actors, but not superstar-caliber lead players, while casting De Niro and Keaton in subordinate roles.
