Jackie Brown

(Universal)

In this Quentin Tarantino adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a down-on-her-luck stewardess who agrees to deliver $50,000 in cash to gun runner Samuel L. Jackson. Cops Michael Keaton and Michael Bowen, who've been staking her out, arrest her and order her to turn Jackson in or do hard time -- but with the unlikely assistance of a straight-arrow bail bondsman (Oscar-nominated Robert Forster), she turns the tables.