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Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high-school seniors prepare for post-high-school life. The chums are Glynn Turman as "Preach," who loves to read poetry and history and wants to become a Hollywood screenwriter, but who has the worst grades in the school; and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Cochise, the high-school basketball star
Jun 25, 1975 Wide
Jan 18, 2000
All Critics (11) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (2) | DVD (4)
Uneven but generally funny.
Sometimes engaging comical and poignant black experience high school teen flick.
Something of a disappointment.
The film's resistance of pathos starts to feel not just counterintuitive, but also a little ghoulish
A crafty and cunning black teen comedy that exudes a slick urban giddiness...an ethnically irreverent big screen answer to television's Happy Days
Cooley High is essentially the black American Graffiti. It's a series of funny and mostly entertaining scenes that don't quite fit together (or necessarily go anywhere) until you stick them to the fumes of a minimalist plot. Throw in an amazing soundtrack and you've got an enjoyable cult classic. For the most part
March 25, 2008Super Reviewer
It was a good movie. I can see why people say that Boyz N the Hood is pretty much the same movie.
March 20, 2007Super Reviewer
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