Cooley High (1975)
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80% of critics liked it
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90% of users liked it
(4,186 ratings)
Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high-school seniors prepare for post-high-school life. The chums are Glynn Turman as… More Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high-school seniors prepare for post-high-school life. The chums are Glynn Turman as "Preach," who loves to read poetry and history and wants to become a Hollywood screenwriter, but who has the worst grades in the school; and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Cochise, the high-school basketball star and suave lady-killer. Preach has to contend with love problems in the form of Brenda (Cynthia Davis), school problems with emphatic teacher Mr. Mason (Garrett Morris), and law problems with street toughs Stone (Shermann Smith) and Robert (Norman Gibson). ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Schultz
- Written By
- Eric Monte
- Genres
- Drama, Classics, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jun 25, 1975 Wide
Critic Reviews
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, Time Out
Something of a disappointment.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Uneven but generally funny.
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Josh Larsen, LarsenOnFilm
...emphasizes the thin line that exists between a life of promise and a life of prison (or worse, death) for kids growing up in a neighborhood like this.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sometimes engaging comical and poignant black experience high school teen flick.
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Bill Chambers, Film Freak Central
The film's resistance of pathos starts to feel not just counterintuitive, but also a little ghoulish
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Cast
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Glynn E. Turman
as Preach
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Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
as Cochise
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Garrett Morris
as Mr. Mason
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Cynthia Davis
as Brenda
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Corin Rogers
as Pooter
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Maurice Leon Havis
as Willie
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Joseph Carter Wilson
as Tyrone
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Shermann Smith
as Stone
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Norman Gibson
as Robert
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Maurice Marshall
as Damon
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Steven Williams
as Jimmy Lee
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Jackie Taylor
as Johnny Mae
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Christine Jones
as Sandra
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Lynn Caridine
as Dorothy
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Robert Townsend
as Uncredited