Tyrone. The law comes looking for them for their indiscretions. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. (Facets), Seventeen and Cooley High: No Easy As, but Powerful Lessons, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/movies/homevideo/seventeen-and-cooley-high-no-easy-as-but-powerful-lessons.html. Krantz placed the script for what was to be Cooley High with producer Samuel Arkoff at AIP. This movie has it's Good and bad point's.. Because theres always something you missed or something that you didnt think of in the shooting of it. (MGM Limited Edition), WATER IS WET Produced by the Erikson Institute for Early Childhood Education and broadcast by Chicago public TV on the cusp of the 1970s, Gordon Weisenborns short films document Chicago as well as the freewheeling preschool pedagogy of the period. All of the adventures are backdropped by a looming graduation which heralds the bittersweet, inescapable reality that pals will be parting ways for uncertain futures. Every night, me and my wife [Gloria Schultz] would cut everything down until we had the completed script. Every now and then there would be a film centered in and filmed in Chicago, but Cooley High did a lot for the city in terms of revamping their stake in the movie business. A textbook journeyman, Shultz has continued directing to this day, mostly in theatre and television. Glynn Turman. Cinemark I didnt get the gig. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. 1975 107 min TVMA Comedy, DramaFeature Film. I can relate to the script the story and the situations. He appeared in Ingmar Bergman's English language film The Serpent's Egg (1977) and was short listed to play Han Solo in Star Wars (1977) until director George Lucas backed away from the controversial casting choice. This isn't just three young guys hanging around having fun, this . Every kid I knew watched it almost daily, the same way we did The Brady Bunch or Laverne & Shirley.. ), Released in United States 2011 (Special Presentation), Released in United States October 1998 (Shown at African American Film Marketplace in Los Angeles October 15-22, 1998.). Shown at Brisbane International Film Festival July 30 - August 9, 1998. We were shooting Together for Days in Atlanta and he came in to audition for a background role. Cooley High is writer Eric Monte's stock synopsis of the sorts of characters, folkways, mores, attitudes, and teenage dilemmas he remembers about growing up in Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green (think Candyman, 1992) housing project. Seen. Unfairly tagged on initial release as an inner city "American Graffiti" this film has rhythms unique to itself. Released in United States on Video April 25, 1991, Released in United States Winter January 1, 1975. Whats more, they are skilled Rollerbladers loaded with eclectic fashion sense. Blu-ray, DVD and Amazon Instant Video. Posters are sourced from TMDb and Posteritati, and appear for you and visitors to your profile and content, depending on settings. My theory was that if it was as culturally specific as possible, and as Black as possible, it would translate across the racial divide and people would fall in love with these kids and their humanity. It was more like an opera or an extended music video a different approach to music as a filmic experience. This movie is a story straight out of the Black Ghetto in the 60s. Their high spirited adventures come with a cost. Youre never satisfied. With Evans' support, Monte got a spec script to Lear that introduced white bigot Archie Bunker's black neighbors, George and Louise Jefferson. What has it been like for you to see that evolution? My wife suggested I drop my rsum off with them before we went on the road to do a play that she was acting in and I was directing. Cooley High [VHS] - amazon.com I thought he was a brilliant comic my friends and I all loved listening to his stuff but he hadnt really broken onto the scene in films yet. Amazon.com: Cooley High : Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers, Maurice Leon Havis, Joseph Carter Wilson, Sherman Smith . Peppers, especially the Bee Gees, who were kind of in an impossible position, standing in for the Beatles, who dont appear in the film. I agreed with [the criticism] in a way. (Shout! What makes the movie much more interesting than a Serbian variation of Stand by Me is its political perspective, Walter Goodman wrote in The Times when Hey Babu Riba, directed by Jovan Acin and now on DVD, opened here in 1987. Cooley High has so much charisma and energy behind it, on top of some killer fashion and soundtrack choices. While Turman never quite attained the predicted strata of "rising star," he matured into a dependable character actor, as seen in such films as Penitentiary II (1982), Gremlins (1984), Deep Cover (1992) and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and as a regular on such popular TV series as A Different World and The Wire. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. As there's hardly been a raft of coming-of-age films that have mostly or completely focused on black people since then, I'm sure Cooley High continues to mean a lot to people approaching it for. To the contrary, Cooley High does not play as though it was intended to be an exploitation film like Car Wash, to which it has been compared. The script, while somewhat unconventional, is effective, engaging, and thoughtful.
