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Carl Weathers, Eartha Kitt, Godfrey Cambridge

Pam Grier is Friday Foster, a photographer's assistant at a glamour magazine assigned to cover the secret arrival of a reclusive black millionaire (Thalmus Rasula). "Just get your cute little behind...( read more  read more... ) out there and take your little pictures and goddammit don't get involved!" Of course she does: The scene erupts into an attempted assassination, and Friday digs up a conspiracy that reaches to Washington, D.C., and involves sassy, flamboyant fashion designer Eartha Kitt, lascivious but good-at-heart minister Scatman Crothers, and a powerful black congressman. Yaphet Kotto costars as a good-natured P.I. she tags along as a sidekick and bodyguard, and Carl Weathers makes a strong impression as a silent but deadly hit man systematically silencing potential witnesses. The script feels more like a comic book than a movie (it was inspired by a newspaper comic strip), with Grier playing Friday as a plucky, resourceful amateur, stealing cars and stalking killers armed with nothing but a fully loaded camera. She's better as the street-smart pistol-packin' mamas of Coffy and Foxy Brown, but still commands the screen every minute she's on. Arthur Marks fills the film with shootouts and (rather bland) car chases, but the highlights are an assassination by garbage truck and a free-for-all firefight at a religious retreat. Jim Backus costars as a wheelchair-ridden racist millionaire, Godfrey Cambridge plays a flamingly gay conspirator, and Ted Lange is a flashy, fast-talking pimp in two comic scenes. --Sean Axmaker

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R, 89 min.

Directed by: Arthur Marks

Release Date: January 1, 1975

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DVD Release Date: December 26, 2001

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  • mwilliams078
    March 22, 2009
    mwilliams078
    Friday Foster, starring Pam Grier from the 70's is a good watch. Pam Grier plays Friday a photographer whom gets caught up in murder and goes undercover. Another hit for Pam Grier who kicked butt in the 70's.
  • mjgildea
    November 28, 2006
    mjgildea
    Like most blaxploitation films, it's not very good but it's fun to watch from a novelty or nostalgic standpoint.
  • flynnparadox
    September 28, 2006
    flynnparadox
    Grier at her hottest! A good, cool film with an undeniable groove.
  • willamblacksnowball
    October 23, 2009
    willamblacksnowball
    My only complaint is not enough ass-kicking on Pam's part.
  • beher221
    July 11, 2009
    beher221
    I fell in love with Pam Grier(again) in this film. She's too tough ;)
  • BeAngieBe
    May 17, 2009
    BeAngieBe
    Loved the clothes and hair in this one...
  • anumba1thaduke
    April 28, 2009
    anumba1thaduke
    Anything with Pam Grier is hard!
  • strawberrybounce2001
    April 3, 2009
    strawberrybounce2001
    one of the best 70's movies ever
  • kingmob6
    January 5, 2009
    kingmob6
    I didn't enjoy this as much as I have other Pam Grier flicks due to what I'd describe as an even more muddled plot that you normally find in Blaxploitation films, but it's worth a look at least once.

    Rental.
  • pieceofmind74
    August 18, 2007
    pieceofmind74
    Pam Grier was the personification of black power and black female sexuality. She's one of the original seventies screen icons.

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