Jackie Brown (1997). Photofest.
(Quentin Tarantino, US 1997, 154 min., 35mm)
A Tribute to Robert Forster. Robert Forster earned a much-deserved Academy Award nomination in Quentin Tarantino’s first film after Pulp Fiction (1994). In this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, Forster plays Max Cherry, a bail bondsman caught up in a tangled double-cross that turns into a much more sinister situation. Cherry is hired by Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) to bail out smuggler Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) after she is caught with some of Ordell’s money and drugs. Ordell plans to murder Jackie before she can testify to the ATF, but Jackie has another plan in mind. Forster imbues Max with a world-weariness that can only come from experience with the darker places in life, while leavening the performance with a hope that there’s always one more adventure on the horizon.
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