7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Jackie Brown (1997)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.5
Overview
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Race Swap: Yes
Overview
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film is a character-driven crime thriller focused on individual choices and survival within a criminal underworld. It does not explicitly promote or critique any specific political ideology, instead emphasizing personal agency and the consequences of individual actions.
The movie features a significant DEI characteristic through the explicit racial recasting of its central protagonist, a role that was originally written as white in the source material. However, the narrative itself does not primarily focus on critiquing traditional identities, instead centering on a crime and survival plot.
Secondary
The film adapts Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch." The characters Jackie Burke (renamed Jackie Brown) and Ordell Robbie, originally depicted as white in the novel, are portrayed by Black actors in the film.
Jackie Brown does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The film's focus is on its crime plot and the heterosexual relationships of its main characters, resulting in no depiction relevant to LGBTQ+ portrayal.
Jackie Brown does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The film's narrative focuses on a crime plot involving a flight attendant, a bail bondsman, and an arms dealer, without engaging with transgender identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Jackie Brown" is an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch." While the protagonist's race was changed from white to Black, her gender remained female. No other significant characters underwent a gender change from the source material.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.5
7.4
Critic Ratings
8.8
6.2
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