Rum Punch Rum Punch Rum Punch is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The novel was adapted into the film "Jackie Brown" (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino, although the movie changed the setting to Los Angeles. The characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara first appeared in Leonard's novel, "The Switch", which itself has also been adapted as a film, "Life of Crime", first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by Mos Def and Gara portrayed by John Hawkes. Set in both West Palm Beach and Miami, "Rum Punch" follows Jackie Burke, a forty-four-year-old stewardess for a
Quentin Tarantino to Tarantino physically assaulting Murphy in the AGO restaurant in West Hollywood, California in October 1997. Murphy subsequently filed a $5M lawsuit against Tarantino, which was eventually settled out of court. Tarantino was also an uncredited screenwriter on both "Crimson Tide" (1995) and "The Rock" (1996). Following the success of "Reservoir Dogs", Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including "Speed" and "Men in Black", but he instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for "Pulp Fiction". Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the black comedy crime film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, maintaining the aestheticization of