WATCH PARTY: Jackie Brown (1997) dir. Quentin Tarantino @ Jordan Newby Library

This may be the only Tarantino movie I haven't seen. (Wait a minute, I haven't seen Pulp Fiction! This is getting embarrassing.)

RUNTIME: 153 minutes

SYNOPSIS: When flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is busted smuggling money for her arms dealer boss, Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and detective Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) want her help to bring down Robbie. Facing jail time for her silence or death for her cooperation, Brown decides instead to double-cross both parties and make off with the smuggled money. Meanwhile, she enlists the help of bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster), a man who loves her.

BLURBS:
"You savor every moment of 'Jackie Brown.' Those who say it is too long have developed cinematic attention deficit disorder. I wanted these characters to live, talk, deceive and scheme for hours and hours." -Roger Ebert

"Maybe posterity will crown Jackie Brown as his best film and maybe not. Either way it shows that mainstream plotting and noir romance are yet more movie styles that Tarantino can fabricate: brilliantly." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian