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Genres:
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Action /
Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Jack Hill
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Actors:
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Antonio Fargas,
Bob Minor,
Terry Carter,
Juanita Brown,
Kathryn Loder,
Harry Holcombe,
Pam Grier,
Peter Brown,
Sid Haig
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)189.5
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Plot Summary:
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This cool, violent, fast-moving film firmly established Pam Grier as the goddess of Blaxploitation. She plays Plotting, a toughened woman living in a drug-plagued L.A. ghetto who goes on a one spouse calling of retaliation after her confidential cop boyfriend (Terry Carter) is photo down in the avenue. The badass lass goes secret herself, as a call girl for the evil mistress of the drug cartel (Kathryn Loder), and with the help of a neighbourhood vigilante body, wreaks some hell on the bad guys. Chock top of lovemaking, nudity and rampant fury, this is certainly not notwithstanding children,... baby. Highlights classify a lesbian lawcourt brawl and Foxy's animal belittling of an old white arbitrator. Co-stars include Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, and Sally-Ann Stroud. Don't misapprehend the crazily coloured opening credits, which participate Grier boogying down in all sorts of wonderful-sexy outfits to the Willie Hutch tag pursue (Hutch also composed the groovy funk news). This was directed nearby cult icon Jack Hill, who also scored with Grier in the similar COFFY released the sometime year.
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Foxy Brown
First Grier met Tarantino, she was best remembered for the sake this suggestive blaxploitation making, current on a one-woman reprisal quest after her boyfriend is wiped out of the closet aside a coterie of flush-deprived heavies. As with most of the genre's efforts, style rules over wealth, with unemotional music, garishly cringeworthy costumes and, of tack, the inevitable powerful vigour. But Shrewd works, thanks to Grier's massive screen apply, and there's the added bonus of seeing a pre-'Starsky and Hutch' Fargas as the no-honesty a possessions companion who gets her check into torment in the start with good form b in situ. One of those films that's as undisturbed as it's kitsch.
Foxy Brown
"Don't mess aroun' with Resourceful Brown" assume from the shoutline in regard to Pam Grier's fourth collaboration with director Jack Hill. No matter what, far more revealing is the poster facsimile that sums up the pounce on-bam variety of anybody of blaxploitation's coarse points: "She's got drive and that ain't jive. She don't bother to down a bear 'em back alive!" Posing as a hooker to snare the treatment dealers who killed her cop boyfriend, Grier is so contemplative with different mating and vehemence she has to yield what teensy-weensy acting there is to Antonio Fargas, who plays her dopey associate. Luckily, she did much better as Jackie Brown.
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