What is the title of Tarantino's 1997 crime film starring Pam Grier?

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Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 crime film starring Pam Grier is Jackie Brown.

The film adapts Elmore Leonard’s 1992 crime novel Rum Punch. Grier plays Jackie, a flight attendant caught smuggling money for arms dealer Ordell Robbie, played by Samuel L. Jackson. The cast also includes Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

Jackie Brown was Tarantino’s third feature film and his only feature-length film based directly on another writer’s work. It was released in the United States on December 25, 1997, and earned about $74.7 million worldwide from a $12 million budget.

The title character also connects the movie to Grier’s earlier blaxploitation career. Tarantino deliberately paid tribute to films such as Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which had starred Grier. Those titles are common wrong answers because they are Grier films, but neither was directed by Tarantino.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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