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.
Grind (1997 film) Grind (1997 film) Grind is a 1997 American drama film directed by Chris Kentis and written by Laura Lau. It stars Billy Crudup, Adrienne Shelly, and Paul Schulze. Crudup plays an ex-con caught in a spiral of dead-end jobs and poor choices. A handsome drifter who has just been released from prison shows up on the doorstep of his older brother. "Grind" was released April 11, 1997, in the United States, where it made $5000. Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" wrote that the film initially has the potential to be "an American neo-realist gem" but descends into melodrama.