

Jackie Brown
This Christmas, Santa's got a brand new bag.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $12M
- Box office
- $74.7M
- Language
- English
- airport
- based on novel or book
- police
- arms deal
- stewardess
- heist
- money
- los angeles, california
- drugs
- ex-con
- flight attendant
- neo-noir
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Theatrical20 Mar 1998
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City, New York8 Dec 1997
- PremiereWestwood, California11 Dec 1997
- TheatricalR25 Dec 1997
- PhysicalRVHS21 Jul 1998
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)15London20 Mar 1998
- Theatrical10 Apr 1998
United Arab EmiratesAE
- TV5 Jun 2008
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+5 Mar 1998
- Digital / OTTMA 15+1 Sept 2020
CanadaCA
- Theatrical25 Dec 1997
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical20 Aug 1998
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical181 Apr 1998
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1622 May 1998
- TheatricalRe-release30 Apr 2004
ChileCL
- PremiereFEMCINE, Festival Cine de Mujeres28 Mar 2015
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival1 Jul 1998
- Theatrical15+16 Jul 1998
- PhysicalDVD, FilmX29 Mar 2007
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical153 Apr 1998
Frequently asked questions
Jackie Brown was released on 25 December 1997.
Audience reviews
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Eky
6/16/2012
Quentin Tarantino, a genius who brought us Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs returned with Jackie Brown, a tale of deception in the world of drugs-smuggling business. Heavily inspired by the 1970’s blaxploitation flicks, it tells the story of a stewardess, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) who was pinned inside the cash-smuggling business as she’s tormented between two choices, becoming a cash-mule and in the end snitching her …
- J9/10
John Chard
2/7/2016
Booyah! Coming as it did after critical darlings "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction", it's perhaps not surprising that Quentin Tarantino's next film failed to - at the time - scale those giddy heights. Yet on reflection these days, when viewing Tarantino's career over twenty years later, it's one of his tightest works. Working from master pulper Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch", Tarantino had a concrete base …
- R9/10
r96sk
10/26/2020
Outstanding, no two ways about it. <em>'Jackie Brown'</em> makes for a great watch, I personally found the pacing excellent; which is obviously important for a 2hr 30min+ production. The cast knock it out the park, while the story is riveting. It's worthy of the hype, one of Quentin Tarantino's best no doubt. Pam Grier is fantastic as the titular character, Samuel L. Jackson is quality as well - the scenes that…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/24/2022
Samuel L. Jackson really steals the show here as the petty criminal "Ordell". He sells guns - gradually accumulating a small fortune which he smuggles in from Mexico using the services of the eponymous air stewardess (Pam Grier). When his well oiled machine starts to splutter, he avails himself of bail bondsman "Cherry" (Robert Forster) and so starts a complex story that sees people drop like flies; policeman "Ray" (…
- B10/10
badelf
2/1/2026
Jackie Brown (1997) Directed by Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino could have spent his career chasing the adrenaline rush of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, refining his trademark violence and verbal pyrotechnics into a formula. Instead, he made Jackie Brown, and in doing so, announced that he was capable of something rarer: restraint, maturity, genuine emotional complexity. This is still pulp fiction, still…
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