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Jackie Brown (1997) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: Set in 1995, the calendar in Jackie's kitchen is for 1997.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The movie is set in 1995 but when Jackie enters the mall a sign on the door says "July 4th, Friday, hours..". July 4 was a Friday in 1997, when the movie was shot.
  
  
• Anachronisms: A computer software store advertises 688 Hunter/Killer, not available until 1997.
  
  

• Anachronisms: Ordell's cellular phone (Motorola StarTac) was not available until 1997.
  
  
• Continuity: Traffic suddenly disappears when Ordell shoots Louis inside the van, and the parked cars keep changing.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Ordell and Louis are in the van after Louis kills Melanie, the camera rig on the side of the van can be seen reflected in several store windows.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Cameraman's reflection can be seen in glass window when Jackie and Ordell are shouting on the patio.
  
  
• Continuity: Melanie's crossed legs switch places in alternating shots. Eventually, the two shots match.
  
  
• Continuity: The extra money at the bottom of the bag is secured with rubber straps, but when viewed later, the straps are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sharonda is talking to Jackie in the mall, Jackie's hand enters frame to put out her cigarette. When the camera cuts back to Jackie, she still has it.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the first scene when Ordell and Louis are watching the "Chicks Who Love Guns" video, Ordell hits the "rewind" button on the remote to move the tape FORWARD to the next scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Max Cherry shows his ID to Jackie, it shows his birthday as 3/15/48, making him 47 years old (the movie takes place in 1995). At the end of the movie, he tells Jackie that he is 56 years old.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jackie leaves the bag of cash in the fitting room she leaves it on the edge of the middle cushion, but when Max Cherry picks it up, its on the left cushion instead.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jackie leaves the fitting room, she leaves the door open. When Max goes to the room, the door is closed.
  
  
• Continuity: The doors in the fitting room go from being high enough off the floor for Jackie to slide the Billington shopping bag under it, to full length when Max goes in to pick it up.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Cameraman's reflection can be seen following Jackie into the mall for the money exchange.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the conversation between Melanie and Louis, in which they are talking about stealing the money from Jackie and Ordell, you can hear director Quentin Tarantino coughing off screen.
  
  
• Continuity: The film takes place in 1995. Officer Dargus explains that Jackie was first busted in 1985, then says "Cut to 13 years later...," making 1998 the year in which the film would be occurring.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Jackie pays for the new suit, the cashier doesn't count the wad of bills that Jackie hands over. This goof occurs again when this scene is repeated from a different character's point of view although at least, this ensures continuity!
  
  
• Continuity: The first time we see Jackie pointing to the fitting rooms, she uses her right hand. The second time, she uses her left.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jackie puts on The Delfonics record, she puts the needle halfway in the first track, but only after a second or so, the beginning of the song ("Didn't I") is heard.
  
  
• Anachronisms: While set in 1995, the song played in the record store is Foxy Brown's "Holy Matrimony (Letters to the Firm)", released in 1996.
  
  
• Continuity: The back of Jackie's hair when she walks away from the cashier in the mall as she is frantically looking for Ray is very curly and neat but a few seconds later it isn't curly and is frizzy.
  
  
• Continuity: While putting the money in her bag in the airplane bathroom, Jackie drops numerous items on the floor. She doesn't pick them up, yet when the camera goes again to an overhead shot, the items on the floor are gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: Del Amo Fashion Center is listed during the film as the largest indoor shopping center in the world. It was not the largest when the film was set or released.
  
  
• Continuity: When Max is in the record store, the number and the positions of the Delfonics tapes in the rack changes between shots.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER : When Ray checks Ordell's pulse after he shoots him, he uses his thumb. Every lawman knows that you do not use your thumb to check for a pulse because you will end up feeling your own pulse.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER : When Ordell and Max go to his office at the end of the movie to see Jackie, Ordell has the gun in his hand when he first walks in with Max. When he walks through the doorway towards Jackie, you can clearly see he has nothing in his hands, but after Ray shoots him, he kicks the gun away from Ordell's hand.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: When Ordell shoots Louis, blood splatters on the van's front windscreen but this is inconsistent with the direction Ordell fired the gun (from the side rather than from behind).
  
  

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