Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown, a flight attendant ensnared in the criminal underworld, finds herself at the nexus of a smuggling operation and a police sting. When her gunrunner boss, Ordell Robbie, attempts to launder cash through her, Jackie sees an opportunity. With the assistance of bail bondsman and sometime lover Bernie, she concocts a scheme to embezzle the money. Director Quentin Tarantino’s languid, jazz-inflected style captures the simmering tension and moral ambiguity of Jackie’s predicament, rendering a tale of opportunism and loyalty that unfolds with a seductive fatalism.