Pulp Fiction / Jackie Brown

PULP FICTION, 1994, Miramax, 153 min. Quentin Tarantino’s homage to crime fiction, Elvis flicks, Los Angeles diners. Godard, and much more was easily the most exciting American film of the 1990s. The movie’s brilliant, against-type casting includes John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Eric Stolz, Maria de Medeiros, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer. Nominated for 7 Oscars and winner for Best Screenplay.

JACKIE BROWN, 1997, Miramax, 154 min. Director Quentin Tarantino followed up PULP FICTION with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. A tentative romance develops between a bail bondsman (Robert Forster) and flight attendant (Pam Grier) when Grier gets caught smuggling cash for homicidal arms dealer Samuel L. Jackson. A cycle of double-crosses and betrayals is soon set into unpredictable motion.