Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture "Jackie Brown". It was originally released on December 9, 1997. The film's score was composed by James Newton Howard. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including soul. The soundtrack also includes dialogue from the motion picture and a lack of typical film score, similar to the other soundtracks of Tarantino films. Tarantino has said that in developing the script for "Jackie Brown", he decided on the majority of the songs during the writing stage.
Jackie Brown screenplay, considering it not only the best of the twenty-six screen adaptations of his novels and short stories, but also stating that it was possibly the best screenplay he had ever read. Tarantino's screenplay otherwise closely followed Leonard's novel, incorporating elements of Tarantino's trademark humor and pacing. The screenplay was also influenced by blaxploitation films, but Tarantino stated that "Jackie Brown" is not a blaxploitation film. "Jackie Brown" alludes to Grier's career in many ways. The film's poster resembles those of Grier's films "Coffy" and "Foxy Brown" and includes quotes from both films. The typeface for the film's opening titles