"I sure hope you didn't do anything stupid, Jackie."

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, December 28 for a very special 25th Anniversary screening of what many people consider to be iconic writer-director Quentin Tarantino's most under-appreciated film, JACKIE BROWN. Based on Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel "Rum Punch," the film stars legendary actress Pam Grier (never better - which is saying a lot because she's always amazing) as a flight attendant who, facing years in prison for a scheme gone awry, decides to make a plan to win back her freedom and get rich. With Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda.

"Maybe posterity will crown 'Jackie Brown' as his best film and maybe not. Either way it shows that mainstream plotting and noir romance are yet more movie styles that Tarantino can fabricate: brilliantly." (Guardian)

"'Jackie Brown' may be the only Quentin Tarantino movie that gets noticeably better with each viewing." (VICE Magazine)

"The tale is filled with funny, gritty Tarantino lowlife gab and a respectable body count, but what is most striking is the film's gallantry and sweetness." (Newsweek)

"The film is more Jarmusch than Peckinpah -- its soul is in the minutiae." (Slate)

"It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric." (Entertainment Weekly)

Wednesday, December 28
Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino, 1997 / 153 mins / 18A) When flight attendant Jackie Brown is busted smuggling money for her arms dealer boss, Ordell Robbie, agent Ray Nicolette and detective Mark Dargus want her help to bring down Robbie. Facing jail time for her silence or death for her cooperation, Brown decides instead to double-cross both parties and make off with the smuggled money. Meanwhile, she enlists the help of bondsman Max Cherry, a man who loves her.