Life of Crime (film) critics. Life of Crime (film) Life of Crime is a 2013 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Daniel Schechter, based on Elmore Leonard's novel "The Switch" (1978), which includes characters later revisited in his novel "Rum Punch" (1992), which was adapted into the Quentin Tarantino film "Jackie Brown" (1997). "Life of Crime" was screened on the closing night 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, at the 2014 Traverse City Film Festival and released in theaters on August 29, 2014. In Detroit in 1978, stoic socialite Mickey Dawson becomes
Quentin Tarantino Tarantino appeared in "Destiny Turns on the Radio", an American comedy film, with Dylan McDermott, Nancy Travis, James LeGros, and James Belushi. He then played the "Pick-up Guy" in Robert Rodriguez's "Desperado", an American contemporary western action film written, produced, and directed by Rodriguez, and starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, and Steve Buscemi. The film was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. 1995 also saw the release of "Four Rooms", an anthology film collaboration of directors that also included Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, and Alexandre Rockwell. Tarantino directed and acted in the fourth