15 Movies You Won’t Believe Are 20 Years Old

Released on Christmas Day, Quentin Tarantino’s third feature film wasn’t exactly the most festive of movies but sh*t was it one of the coolest.

Based on Elmore Leonard’s book Rum Punch, it’s Tarantino’s only adapted work to date and a homage to blaxploitation that starred genre veteran Pam Grier as the titular flight attendant turned smuggler who double crosses both the law and her gun-runner boss with the help of bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster).

Unlike Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction before it, Jackie Brown featured a more straightforward linear narrative and was a lot less violent than its two predecessors. Well, unless you count Bridget Fonda, Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson getting shot point-blank range violent of course – it is a Tarantino film after all.

Along with his trademark violence though, Jackie Brown also gave us a typically brilliant soundtrack and a tonne of pop culture references and remains one of Tarantino’s best movies today.