Jackie Brown

Lifting its central story from Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch, Tarantino's third major feature pays homage to the 'blaxploitation' genre of the 1970s and features one of the era's great stars in Pam Grier. She plays the titular middle-aged flight attendant, whose cash-smuggling work for Los Angeles gun-runner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) soon lands her in hot water. With the authorities keen to use her to convict Ordell, and Ordell looking to pull off once last big cash move - Jackie Brown is stuck in the middle, with lots to lose, but also, perhaps, plenty to gain...