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Coffy
: :She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun a razor or just her bare hands she doesn't miss a beat in this 'smashing no-holds-barred tale of retaliation' (Variety)! Nobody ever commandeered the screen quite like Pam Grier...and Coffy 'couldn t be better! [It's] one of the most entertaining movies ever made'(Quentin Tarantino)!Grier is Coffy nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her ...
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
:Description:A hilarious Soul Cinema send-up, this ultra-slick, urban action comedy blows 70's blaxploitation movies right out of the 'hood! Featuring the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect 'mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor' (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto ...
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Cooley High
: :Black high school seniors and their adventures in the early 1960s.Genre: Feature Film Urban DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 1-MAY-2001Media Type: DVD :Cooley High has frequently been compared to American Graffiti, and for good reason. Like that classic, Cooley High has a loose, multicharacter structure, autobiographical origins, and the rich texture of its time. Set in Chicago in 1964, the movie follows aspiring writer Preach (Glynn Turman) and local basketball star Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, who went on to star in Welcome Back, ...
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Sheba, Baby
:Description:Super sexy soul sister Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) is hotter than dynamite in a role she fills with fiery determination. Proving she's cool, tough and glamorousa female fantasy Wonder Woman (Los Angeles Times), Grier delivers a riveting, gutsy performance in this hard-hitting thriller that leaps from one death-defying scene to the next. Sheba Shayne is a private eye summoned to her hometown to help her father stop the mob from moving in on his loan business. But she gets too close ...
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Cotton Comes To Harlem
: :One of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation boom by delivering a 'refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor' (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of 'fast-paced adventure [and] comic lunacy' (Pacific Film Archive). Detectives 'Gravedigger' Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and 'Coffin Ed' Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) a brother whose 'Back ...
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Black Caesar
: :Fred Williamson is imposing tough and unflappable (The New York Times) as a street kid who muscles his way into the big-time mob racket in this super-slick crime drama which became the smash hit of its genre and spawned a successful sequel (Hell Up In Harlem). Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud Tommy resorts to running errands for The Man. But when a ...
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Black Mama, White Mama
:Description:'A genre all by herself' (Voice), Pam Grier tacklesand shacklesher sleekest role yet as the feistier half of a pair of women in chains and on the run in this 'colorful, outrageous and truly exciting' action flick (The Hollywood Reporter)! Grier is Lee Daniels, a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing 'em together! Chained to her bitter rival, white revolutionary Karen (Margaret ...
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Friday Foster
:Description:Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier leads an outta-sight, all-star cast, including Yaphet Kotto (Alien), Eartha Kitt (TV's original Catwoman), Carl Weathers (RockyÂ(r)), Scatman Crothers (The Shining), Ted Lange ('The Love Boat'), Jim Backus ('Gilligan's Island') and Godfrey Cambridge (Cotton Comes to Harlem) in this ultra-slick, pulse-pumping actioner that brings a foxy camerawoman into the focus of danger! When photographer Friday Foster (Grier) unwittingly uncovers a white supremecist plot to knock off all of the country's top black leaders, she andher free-wheelin', ...
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Original Gangstas
:Description:The biggest and baddest stars of Soul Cinema, Fred Williamson (Black Caesar), Jim Brown (Slaughter), Pam Grier (Foxy Brown), Ron O'Neal (Superfly) and Richard Roundtree (Shaft) return to the genre that made them famous in this 'big, brassy, overblown, pyrotechnic valentine' (Entertainment Today)! Also featuring Isabel Sanford ('The Jeffersons') as Bookman's mother, this all-new, all-action tale of slick, ten-fisted retribution 'delivers as generous a measure of sensational entertainment as any of the Shaft or Superfly pictures of a generation ago' (Long ...
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The Monkey Hustle
: :From the director of Friday Foster and J. D. s Revenge comes a free-wheelin fast-dealin look at life in the ghetto Chicago style. Filled with comedy fantasy and a cast of unforgettable characters The Monkey Hustle is a fast funny and downright funky film that has it all and a little more! Everybody s got a scam goin on in this small Chicago hood but nobody s got it goin quite like Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto). He s so smooth ...
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