Glynn E. Turman,
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs,
Garrett Morris,
Cynthia Davis,
Corin Rogers
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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 gr... read more
DVD Release Date: January 18, 2000
Stats: 308 reviews
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 enjoya... read more
It was a good movie. I can see why people say that Boyz N the Hood is pretty much the same movie.
A 70's film about a 60's group of friends from the projects meandering through their last year of high school. The soundtrack is a gem, matching the soaring harmonica of Stevie Wonders fingertips to the exuberance of four boys playing hookey at the zoo. In these little-incidents-... read more
Yeah, this is an alltime classic too, from Cochise to Preach with an inspiring ending! You can make it out of your circumstances my brothers!
Chicago in the 60's, I was a kid but I lived not far from Cooley, and all those charecters seem like, the people I knew.
You guys think it's so funny because I want to be something besides a factory worker or a football player. Well, that's because you're a bunch of stupid niggers that don't know shit!
Cooley High is often called the "Black American Graffiti" but I think it stands on its own as an equal if not slightly better film than the George Lucas classic. This comedy-drama set in 1960's Chicago chronicles the life of high school buddies Preach and Cochise trying to surviv... read more
I've absolutely adored this movie from the first time I saw it. When I think of old-school classics, this one is in the top 5.
Takes you back down memory lane and allow you to see the changes that occurred over time - because the understanding of teenage fun has drastically changed through generations
this is one of my top ten movies of all time...it reminded me of my high school days, before the metal detectors, and "po-lease" in the school...this movie helped me learn and understand that those new and fresh feelings of high school (whether good or bad) doesn't and is not sup... read more
Sometimes engaging comical and poignant black experience high school teen flick. Full Review
The film's resistance of pathos starts to feel not just counterintuitive, but also a little ghoulish Full Review
A crafty and cunning black teen comedy that exudes a slick urban giddiness...an ethnically irreverent big screen answer to television's Happy Days
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