i) Samuel L Jackson, Out Of Sight - And so the game is up. Jack Foley, George Clooney's career criminal, is back in police custody, arrested by Jennifer Lopez's Karen Brisco, the law woman he’s lost his heart to. But then, wait a minute! Jack's sharing his ride back to the pen with Mr L Jackson's Hejira, a man who breaks out of jails the way most people get out of bed. Could it be that the lady cop wants her beau back on the run again? That's what we're led to believe as the seemingly downbeat ending to Steven Soderbergh's crime comedy turns into something both marvelous and mischievous.
ii) Christopher Walken, Pulp Fiction - In a film that whips forwards and backwards through time, it's a flashback to the childhood of prize fighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) that provides an excuse for one of the finest cameos in all film. As returning POW Captian Koons, Christopher Walken gets to spin a yarn about hiding Butch's old man's watch up his ass for two years, Coolidge Sr having done much the same for the previous five. A superb summary of everything that's great and God damn funny about 'Nam movies from the man who's seen every one ever made, Quentin Tarantino.
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