Friday Foster

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Brent A @BrentAprill45 Dec 25, 2023 60% rating ... Not as iconic as Pam Grier's Foxy Brown, but Friday Foster delivers in a decent, yet slightly over-the-top way. Give it a watch if you're a Pam Grier fan. See more

Anderson O @Platinum2027 Sep 17, 2023 Creative on the social message of Blackxpiotation films. Pam Grier is another iconic casting for a comic strip and pulpy adaptation of Friday Foster. Has replay ability, and a catchy song to go with it. I've had limited knowledge of the existence of the comic strip it was based on, but glad I saw Friday Foster. See more

Chris M @RT21954632 Apr 11, 2023 This is an overlooked Blaxploitation classic. The cast, the story and the action are all perfect. But it's not totally perfect though. There are a couple really unlikable characters and it does drag at points. But overall, it's a classic and more need to see this classic of the Blaxploitation era. See more

Steve D @RT35616104 Mar 17, 2023 Hasn't really aged well but Grier is still effective. See more

Carlos I @carlosFibarra Feb 19, 2023 Now this is more my speed. It may not be the best example of the genre, nor her most iconic character, but it's super engaging thanks to how much fun Pam Grier is clearly having. Not to mention how much more range she's granted to explore. See more

May 1, 2022 Not just a blaxploitation, not just a comic strip movie, not just a Pam Grier movie, this is also her last movie for AIP that ties in race identity, being a woman and, most essentially, Pam Grier kicking ass for 90 minutes. Friday Foster comes from an American newspaper comic strip, created and written by Jim Lawrence -- who wrote the James Bond strip -- and illustrated by Jorge Longarón that ran from January 18, 1970, to February 17, 1974. She was one of the first African-American women characters to star in her own strip with only Jackie Ormes' Torchy Brown coming before it (that strip ran in the Pittsburgh Courier, which makes me quite happy to know that my hometown sometimes does things ahead of the rest of the world). Friday started as an assistant to high-fashion photographer Shawn North, but soon became an international supermodel leaving her troubled life in Harlem behind her. Since her strip ended, Friday has shown up in Dick Tracy. Foster (Grier) has witnessed an assassination attempt on the wealthiest African American, Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala) and then her best friend Cloris Boston (Rosaline Miles) is murdered. Soon, not listening to her boss' warning to stay out of her stories, she finds herself targeted for death. Arthur Marks already had some comic strip experience, directing three episodes of the Steve Canyon TV series. He also directed Bonnie's Kids, Detroit 9000, Bucktown, A Women for All Men, J.D.'s Revenge, Class of '74, The Roommates and the "Find Loretta Lynn" episode of The Dukes of Hazzard. Writer Orville H. Hampton worked on everything from Rocketship X-M and Mesa of Lost Women to The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, Jack the Giant Killer and episodes of Flipper, Perry Mason, Super Friends, Fantasy Island and The Dukes cartoon. There are some great people in this, like Yaphet Kotto as private detective Colt Hawkins, Earth Kitt as fashion designer Madame Rena, Scatman Crothers, Godfrey Cambridge, Ted Lange and Jim Backus as a racist Senator. There's even a scene with a young Carl Weathers as one of the bad guy's goons. The real joy of this film is the agency it affords Friday. She's gorgeous, sure, but she can easily best any man. And when she beds more than one over the running time of the film, she's never judged. Best of all, her blackness is central to who she is and not an afterthought. Supposedly Marks was trying to turn this into a TV series. I wish that had happened because one Friday Foster adventure is nowhere near enough. See more

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