"Hard Eight" (1997)
Credit:Mark Tillie/Rysher Entertainment
1997 was a big year for Jackson at the movies, starting with Paul Thomas ("There Will Be Blood") Anderson’s first film where he played Jimmy, a Reno lowlife who blackmails the main character, Sydney.
Badass moment: Jimmy shatters a car window (with his hand) and, in an escalating rage laced with colorful expletives (in classic Jackson form), demands Sydney’s money.
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