Brown then runs frantically to the food court and yells out to Nicolette, claiming Melanie burst into the dressing room and stole the money. Brown takes $10,000 she separated before entering the mall and places it on top of the bag she gives Ralston as a bonus. Instead, the bag she gives Melanie contains only $40,000, and she leaves the rest in the dressing room for Cherry. She has told Robbie she will swap bags there with Melanie, under the nose of Nicolette, who thinks the exchange will occur in the food court. Brown enters a dressing room in a department store to try on a suit. On the day of the transfer, Robbie discovers Simone has left town with the $10,000 and reluctantly recruits Melanie to perform the swap, with Gara taking her to the mall. He informs Brown and she confronts Robbie, who states he used Simone Hawkins (one of Robbie's contacts) to secure his money as backup. After Brown leaves, Cherry observes an unknown woman swap bags with Sheronda. During a test run, Brown smuggles in $10,000, with Nicolette and Dargus aware, to swap with Sheronda (Robbie's live in girlfriend) at a shopping mall. Unbeknownst to all, Brown plans to keep the $500,000 for herself. Unaware of the plan to smuggle in $550,000, Nicolette and Dargus devise a sting to catch Robbie during a transfer of $50,000. Gara informs Robbie about this but Robbie replies that he is not concerned about her. Meanwhile, Ralston attempts to convince Gara to betray Robbie and take the money for themselves. Robbie brings in Louis Gara, a criminal associate and former cellmate, just released from prison. She negotiates a deal with Robbie whereby she pretends to help the authorities while smuggling in $550,000 of his money. Robbie arrives at Brown's apartment shortly thereafter to kill her, and after she pulls a gun on him, it is revealed she stole it from Cherry's glovebox. Having been paid by Robbie, Cherry bails out Brown. She is sent to jail, which alerts Robbie. When his courier, Beaumont Livingston, is arrested, Robbie bails him out with bail bondsman Max Cherry, then kills Livingston later that night, fearing that Livingston would turn informant.Īcting on information Livingston gave them, ATF agent Ray Nicolette and LAPD detective Mark Dargus intercept Brown with Robbie's cash and a bag of cocaine, which she is unaware was intended for Melanie Ralston, Robbie's surfer-girl. Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a gun runner in Los Angeles.

Released on December 25, 1997, the film itself received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $74 million worldwide. It earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Forster, and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. The film revitalized the careers of both Grier and Forster, neither of whom had had a lead role for many years. As Tarantino's third directorial effort following Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994), it is the only feature-length film that Tarantino has adapted from a previous work. An adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch, the film pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), both of which also starred Grier in the title roles. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro in supporting roles.

Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier in the title role, along with Samuel L.

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