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Holistic Guidance - Coffy
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $1.09
Your Save: $ 13.89 ( 93% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Orion / MGM
Starring: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott (II), Allan Arbus
Directed By: Jack Hill
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792899679
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0792899679
Label: Orion / MGM
Manufacturer: Orion / MGM
Publisher: Orion / MGM
Release Date: 1999-01-05
Studio: Orion / MGM
Theatrical Release Date: 1973-06-13
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Editorial Reviews:
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In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he never lets up on the down-and-dirty action. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by glib, smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating. There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. Mob strong-arm Sid Haig (Spider Baby) cackles while dragging his victim (a strutting peacock pimp played by Nashville's Robert DoQui) behind a speeding car in a sadistic lynching, and Grier runs down one bad guy with a speeding car and takes care of another with a shotgun to the groin. Hill had previously directed Grier in The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. Their next and last picture together, Foxy Brown, was originally written as the sequel to Coffy. --Sean Axmaker
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the Best Of The Blaxploitation Genre
Comment: This is one of my favorite movies. Coffy is a nurse by day and a vigilante by night, seeking revenge on the drug dealers who turned her twelve-year-old sister into a junkie.
Technically this movie falls into a genre known as blaxploitation, low-budget films of the early 1970's with the main characters being played by black actors, but this movie was one of the higher quality films of the genre, and Coffy transformed Pam Grier into an international movie star.
Coffy comes together as a quality film because the character is so likeable, and a standard B-movie formulaic plot is transformed into a really good movie. This isn't Shakespeare or Masterpiece Theatre, just a fun, fast-paced movie with a lot of action, fast cars and a female heroine in the lead role, and a good script that leads to an ending that is worthy of the entire film.
Customer Rating:
Summary: COFFY Rocks!
Comment: I loved it, but then again I love every action flick Pam Grier has ever done. She is one bad to bone female is this action packed film. You will be enthralled by this no-nonsense heroine. Check this out!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Killer Coffy
Comment: All the good I'd read about this flick is true. This one really smokes. Great action/ fight scenes and Pam Grier is one helluva woman. Highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One vengeful sista'.
Comment: Pam Grier was one tough cookie in this classic 70's drama. I wouldn't have wanted her to come looking for me if i was a drug dealer. The way she blew that pimp's face off with that shot gun early on in the movie was real gangsta. Boy, somebody shouldn't have never gave her little sister drugs. This is if not her best movie in my opinion. I also loved Foxy Brown and Friday Foster as well.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Coffy
Comment: This movie is one of the first big movies
of the Blaxploitation "movement." It's
also the one that made Pam Grier a household
name. Originally, this movie was created as box-office competiton
for "Cleopatra Jones," but what resulted was a soul cinema
classic for the ages.
As always, the plot is simple. Pam Grier plays a nurse whose
young sister suffers a near fatal overdose thanks to a
local pusher. Coffy's reaction (in grand Blaxploitation style)
is to eliminate the pusher and everyone in proximity to him.
She resorts to various means to infiltrate the
system, locate the main culprits, and dispose of them with
a firey vengeance. We're taken on an entertaining blood ride
of costumes, clever weaponry, cat fights, and colorful accents
(one of the highlights is Grier's totally unconvincing Jamaican
accent, which dies away before the end of the scene and is never
heard from again. LOL. I'm pretty sure the director was thinking that Pam Grier in a bikini
is convincing enough to sell sun tan lotion to an Eskimo ). The customary nudity, too, is well displayed.
This film is a great time. I highly recommend it.
The standard blaxploitation disclaimer must be given: If you're looking
for profound, thought provoking cinema, keep looking. If you're
in the market for a good time, Coffy's the gal for you.
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