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Tarantino's third film is arguably his most serious and studied; a soulful crime saga with Pam Grier as the flight attendant in the midst of a money-laundering scam.

Crime 1997 154 mins

Director: Quentin Tarantino

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Overview

Quentin Tarantino followed Pulp Fiction with this stripped-back crime saga, an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch that, despite being the only film of Tarantino's to be an adaptation, still feels like his most serious, personal work.

Blaxploitation legend Pam Grier is excellent as the flight attendant caught up in a money laundering racket, who has to learn fast in juggling the attentions of bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) and violent gun-runner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). Perhaps surprisingly, Tarantino's homage to blaxpolitation is sweet and soulful, rather than frenetically funky, and in resurrecting the wonderful Grier from a late-career of b-movies and minor roles, he delivers the most rounded, human and engaging lead character in his entire filmography.

Director
Quentin Tarantino
Featuring
Pam GrierSamuel L. JacksonRobert ForsterBridget FondaMichael Keaton
Genres
CrimeThriller
Certificate
15Passed '15' for coarse language, moderate violence, drugs and one sex scene.
Released
1997
Country
USA
Language
English