Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adapted from Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, the plot follows a female flight attendant (Pam Grier) as she sets about holding on to some cash, orbited by a small-time gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lovelorn bailbondsman (Robert Forster). Unfortunately, Tarantino has complicated things by letting too much B-movie slip into his creation: specifically, bits of a score from the blaxploitation movie Coffy and a none-too-riveting acting style on the part of the title's heroine...
...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...
Even that which we enjoy of his world, he doesn't know to temper. Having Jackson's gun runner sit Robert DeNiro's aging felon on a couch and show a video of gals with guns--that's a master touch. But lingering on the boring homebody life of a criminal is a little too much, even if DeNiro's the criminal: I'm not all for the experiential method of getting an audience to feel the consummate boredom of a character by subjecting them to the same...
Samuel L. Jackson produces and stars in this gothic tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayou, but graciously hands the story over to the lesser known actresses surrounding him, including Debbi Morgan as a haunted clairvoyant and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons demonstrates impressive style and maturity in this dark, hypnotic film. --Jeremy J. Ross...
District Court Judge Thomas P. Jackson appointed Lessig as a special master to sift though the "extensive highly technical evidence" in the case in December...