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Cooley High
(1975)
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Editorial Reviews
From Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide Inner-city rip-off of AMERICAN GRAFFITI (set in Chicago, 1964) is nonetheless pleasing on its own terms, though only on the level of a good TV show. Lots of laughs. Look fast for Robert Townsend. Later evolved into the What's Happening!! TV series. Copyright© Leonard Maltin, 1998, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc. --This text refers to another version of this video.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Great movie!!!
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September 10, 1999
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Reviewer:
A viewer
from Chicago, IL
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Great movie!!! I had the opportunity to see it as a child. Please release it again. I'd like to order a few copies of this video so I can give it to my friends. It is a classic.
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FANTASTIC
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June 21, 1999
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Reviewer:
A viewer
from Sacramento, California
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I wish the studio would release this video once again. I love the music. It is a real blast from the past.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Just a great make you think story
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June 5, 1999
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Reviewer:
Eric Thomas (ect@faav.net)
from Cape Cod, Mass
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I saw this maybe 20 years ago. And it still rings true today. A story about life as it was and is today. I rank this up there as one of the best movies I have ever seen. Street life, making mistake and having to deal with it, But most of all it's a story about friends and being there. I just love the part when the boys are sad because one homie is dead. they pour out a little of what ther drinking saying " For the brothers who aint here" What a classic. This is a must see!!!!
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The original "Boyz N the Hood" flick
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March 23, 1999
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Reviewer:
A viewer
from Plainfield, NJ
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All of the Black "coming-of-age" films of the 90s -- such as "Boyz N the Hood", "Juice", and even the more romantic "Jason's Lyric" -- owe a debt to "Cooley High". It's as much a classic as "American Graffiti". See familiar faces when they were much younger, like Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Garrett Morris. See Robert Townsend's QUICK cameo (on the basketball court in the gym). See the seeds of what would later become the "What's Happening" TV show (Preach, the skinny writer with glasses became Roger, the skinny writer with glasses). See a death scene that had viewers in tears years before the death scene in "Boyz N the Hood". Hear the original version of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (Had Boys II Men even been born in 1975?) No doubt about it, there will never be another "Cooley High". [I can't listen to the song "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" by the Four Tops without thinking of this film. Once you see it, you'll understand why.]
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