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...subjected to long stretches of Grier, punctuated with experimental or retro techniques. Grier gets a '70s long-shot in which we wait for her to walk towards us from 50 feet away (sent up hilariously by Woody Allen in Annie Hall). The screen goes blurry for Forster's bondsman as he thinks. Grier and Jackson carry on an argument behind glass doors...
...Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face is a road map of disappointment in the venality of humankind...
Jackie Brown could make her a true mainstream star. She plays an airline stewardess who teams up with a white bail bondsman to steal half a million dollars from a gunrunning black thug. The film starts with a long, loving shot of Grier as she glides down a walkway through an airport. "I hope this film does for Pam what working for Quentin has done for other people," says co-star Jackson, alluding to his own post-Tarantino success and John Travolta's as well...
...taller and weighed considerably less than the fugitive, and looked nothing like her photograph. Bounty hunters handcuffed her, and thus began a five-day escapade that ended with Mason's being turned over to the sheriff in Tuscaloosa, Ala. When she turned out to be the wrong person, the bondsman gave her a $24 bus ticket back home, says her lawyer David Breitbart...
Medicine, he discovered, was too unimaginative to hold him. "To quit medicine to become a writer," he once wrote, "struck most people like quitting the Supreme Court to become a bail bondsman." Yet the medical-school years gave him "a fund of experience and a sense of pace. Things happen fast. I still think it's true that any sense of narrative pacing on my part comes out of the emergency room." Indeed, in 1974 he wrote a movie script about his emergency-room experiences but got no takers in Hollywood. Years later, Steven Spielberg took a shine...