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Coffy

  • 19731973
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  • 1h 30m
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Pam Grier in Coffy (1973)
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A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
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    • Pam Grier
    • Booker Bradshaw
    • Robert DoQui
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    • Booker Bradshaw
    • Robert DoQui
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    Pam Grier
    Pam Grier
    • Coffy
    Booker Bradshaw
    Booker Bradshaw
    • Howard Brunswick
    Robert DoQui
    Robert DoQui
    • King George
    William Elliott
    William Elliott
    • Carter
    Allan Arbus
    Allan Arbus
    • Arturo Vitroni
    Sid Haig
    Sid Haig
    • Omar
    Barry Cahill
    Barry Cahill
    • McHenry
    Lee de Broux
    Lee de Broux
    • Nick
    Ruben Moreno
    • Ramos
    Lisa Farringer
    Lisa Farringer
    • Jeri
    Carol Locatell
    Carol Locatell
    • Priscilla
    • (as Carol Lawson)
    Linda Haynes
    Linda Haynes
    • Meg
    John Perak
    John Perak
    • Aleva
    Mwako Cumbuka
    Mwako Cumbuka
    • Grover
    Morris Buchanan
    Morris Buchanan
    • Sugarman
    Peaches Jones
    • Julia
    Jan-Minika Hughes
    • Billie
    • (as Minika Hughes)
    Leslie McRay
    Leslie McRay
    • Cindy
      • Jack Hill
      • Jack Hill
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    • Trivia
      The idea to hide various weapons in Coffy's afro came from Pam Grier.
    • Goofs
      Brunswick mistakenly calls the character of Ramos by the actor's real name: Ruben.
    • Quotes

      Coffy: This is the end of your rotten life, you motherfuckin' dope pusher!

    • Alternate versions
      The film was initially rejected for UK cinema under the title "Coffey" and then passed 6 months later with minimal BBFC cuts (to the stabbing of Omar). All later releases were fully uncut.
    • Connections
      Featured in Urban Legend (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Coffy Baby
      Sung by Dee Dee Bridgewater

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      Lyrics by Roselle Weaver

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    the best Pam Grier movie!
    if you've always wondered what was so great about Pam Grier, and haven't seen any of her movies from the seventies, look no further than Coffy. Coffy has it all, violence, pimps, drugs, nudity, sex, and it's served up with some severe camp and crazy dialogue. what sets this movie apart from other blaxploitaion movies is the excellent story and powerful performance of Miss Grier. I don't think anyone else could have pulled it off, and despite the low budget ambiance and feeling the movie took about a couple of weeks to make, Grier gives a performance worthy of her cult reverence.

    the movie is a typical revenge story, with a not so typical hero-a black woman. Coffy's sister is hooked on smack and Coffy vows to herself to destroy the people responsible. Coffy works as a nurse by day, and prowls the clubs by night looking for the pusher who destroyed her sister's mind with drugs. Her search leads her to a pimp, a mobster, the cops, and a politician. In the end, she takes care of them all using her brains as well as her body, and damn do she have a body! Pam Grier makes this movie believable despite the obvious flaws of the low budget production. Her character never shows the weak side of femininity and fall into the ethos that women are at some point weaker than men. Coffy never breaks down to cry for help, waiting for a man or anyone else to help her-she does it all on her own. she kicks ass all over, and no other movie has done that with a female character, at least not anything credible. Coffy makes Thelma and Louise look like Laverne and Shirley.

    Pam went on to make more movies of this ilk, but none were as popular nor as good as Coffy. what about Foxy Brown you ask? despite a better title, it doesn't compare to Coffy in either performance or content. Coffy served to bring Pam Grier into the main stream, as much as any black actress could be, and make her a star. all i can say is, thank you Quentin Tarentino for making Jackie Brown and proving her power and presence as an actress. See this movie, then see Jackie Brown, you'll see why Tarentino made it.
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    • Release date
      • May 11, 1973 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Glendale Freeway, Glendale, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • American International Pictures (AIP)
      • Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment International
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