Pam Grier, the diva of nineteen seventies Black action cinema, was known for her style, sass and roles challenging gender, race and class hierarchies.
We are celebrating the 25th anniversary re-release of Jackie Brown alongside Blaxploitation cult classics Coffy and Foxy Brown.
A seemingly unremarkable middle-aged stewardess, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) has a secret side-gig: smuggling money from Mexico to Los Angeles for arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson).
But when she gets caught by the FBI with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, Jackie plots a complicated confidence game with a besotted bail bondsman to escape the government’s clutches – and make out with half a million dollars of her boss’s money.