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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...
...present moment, such action would be a breach of Japan's constitution, which protects the privacy of personal communication. The study, issued by the Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Ministry, found that the use of the Internet for defamation or for making "public other sensitive information" --think Tommy and Pam-- "warrants reconsideration of privacy rights...
...film is an elaborate, fitfully funny Tarantoon about chatty folks with big guns. Working reverently from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam 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...
...woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time when black actors rarely had love scenes. Says Darius James, author of the book That's Blaxploitation!: "Pam Grier was one of the first important female action heroes. She was able to both exploit the male libido and assert [physical] power over men." Coffy and Foxy Brown may be shoddy films, but they serve up sex and violence in visceral ways. At the start of Foxy Brown, Grier hides...
...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...