Hi... The tone of the film is also somewhat similar to the film adaptation of EDDIE COYLE, although not as bleak. The character's name in the film is also Jackie Brown; everything I've read attributes the 1997 film name Jackie Brown as a tie to Grier's Foxy Brown character, however, but that could just be an unawareness of the EDDIE COYLE character and an inside joke for Tarantino. > 2. One of the cops clearly dates the sting at the mall as summer 96 (I've > forgotten the exact date) but during the scene you can see an ad for the > computer game Jane's 688(i) which wasn't released until the middle of 1997. I also remember a scene where Forster comes out of a theater, and there's a poster for THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, which came out in 1995. Noah > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Lang Thompson > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 > New at Funhouse: Pazz & Jop Ballot, Overlooked Albums > of 1997, expanded links, William Burroughs obituary. > > "A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from > the bristles." -- Ambassador Kosh > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite > ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]