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Friday Foster

  • 19751975
  • RR
  • 1h 30m
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6.0/10
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Friday Foster (1975)
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At Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy.At Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy.At Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy.
IMDb RATING
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2.3K
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    • Arthur Marks
    • Orville H. Hampton(screenplay by)
    • Arthur Marks(story by)
  • Stars
    • Pam Grier
    • Yaphet Kotto
    • Godfrey Cambridge
    • Arthur Marks
    • Orville H. Hampton(screenplay by)
    • Arthur Marks(story by)
  • Stars
    • Pam Grier
    • Yaphet Kotto
    • Godfrey Cambridge
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    • 41User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
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    Pam Grier and Yaphet Kotto in Friday Foster (1975)
    Eartha Kitt in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier and Rosalind Miles in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier and Carl Weathers in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier and Paul Benjamin in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier and Yaphet Kotto in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier and Julius Harris in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier and Thalmus Rasulala in Friday Foster (1975)
    Pam Grier in Friday Foster (1975)

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    Pam Grier
    Pam Grier
    • Friday Foster
    Yaphet Kotto
    Yaphet Kotto
    • Colt Hawkins
    Godfrey Cambridge
    Godfrey Cambridge
    • Ford Malotte
    Thalmus Rasulala
    Thalmus Rasulala
    • Blake Tarr
    Eartha Kitt
    Eartha Kitt
    • Madame Rena
    Jim Backus
    Jim Backus
    • Enos Griffith
    Scatman Crothers
    Scatman Crothers
    • Reverend Noble Franklin
    Ted Lange
    Ted Lange
    • Fancy Dexter
    Tierre Turner
    Tierre Turner
    • Cleve
    Paul Benjamin
    Paul Benjamin
    • Senator David Lee Hart
    Jason Bernard
    Jason Bernard
    • Charles Foley
    Ed Cambridge
    Ed Cambridge
    • Lt. Jake Wayne
    • (as Edmund Cambridge)
    Julius Harris
    Julius Harris
    • Monk Riley
    Rosalind Miles
    • Clorils Boston
    Carl Weathers
    Carl Weathers
    • Yarbro
    Jack Baker
    Jack Baker
    • Cop #1
    • (as John Anthony Bailey)
    James Cousar
    • Chauffeur #2
    Will Gill Jr.
    • Minister
    • (as William Gill)
      • Arthur Marks
      • Orville H. Hampton(screenplay by)
      • Arthur Marks(story by)
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    • Trivia
      The film is based on a newspaper comic strip of the same name by Jim Lawrence and Jorje Longeron that debuted January 18, 1970 and ran in 80 to 100 papers. It was the first mainstream comic strip with a black lead character. The end credits thank Chicago Tribune Syndication, which licensed the comic strip to newspapers. Ironically, the movie was released after the strip ended in 1974.
    • Goofs
      Even though the plot is set in February (the finale takes place on Valentine's Day), the trees in the Washington D.C. scenes are all green, and no one is wearing winter clothes.
    • Quotes

      Ford Malotte: [to Friday] Take my advice stay out of it. Get laid have a baby or something.

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      Featured in Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004)
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    It's no wonder Pam Grier's career quickly went down the toilet after lame movies like this and 'Sheba, Baby'!
    Jack Hill's brilliant 'Coffy' is one of the 1970s best exploitation movies and remains the definitive Pam Grier role. It's such a pity that within two years Grier was forced into making something as mediocre as 'Friday Foster'. It's no wonder he career quickly went down the toilet after lame movies like this and 'Sheba, Baby'! 'Coffy' is a classic revenge movie and actually had some element of realism. Hill's next collaboration with Grier 'Foxy Brown' stepped away from that, and I didn't enjoy it as much, but compared to this it's a masterpiece. In 'Friday Foster' Grier is getting even closer to 'Cleopatra Jones' territory, but without the fun and style of that movie or its sequel. This movie actually has one of the best supporting casts of any blaxploitation film, but even that fails to satisfy. Yaphet Kotto plays Grier's detective buddy, and Julius Harris is her boss. Plus there's Scatman Crothers ('Black Belt Jones'), Thalmus Rasulala ('Blacula'), Godfrey Cambridge ('Cotton Comes To Harlem'), Paul Benjamin ('Across 110th Street') and Carl Weathers ('Rocky'), as well as Eartha Kitt, Isaac the bartender from 'The Love Boat' (Ted Lange) and even inexplicably 'Gilligan's Island's Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus)! As much as I love Grier and Kotto, 'Friday Foster's paper thin plot didn't hold my interest for very long and I was bored way before the climactic shootout. I regard this and 'Truck Turner' (which funnily enough also co-stars Yaphet Kotto) as the two most disappointing blaxploitation movies I've seen. If you want to see Pam Grier at her best watch 'Coffy', then follow it up with 'Foxy Brown' and 'Jackie Brown'. All three movies wipe the floor with this limp effort.
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    • Jun 19, 2004

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    • Release date
      • March 9, 1977 (Portugal)
      • United States
      • MGM
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Richelieu Apartments - 751 South Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • American International Pictures (AIP)
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
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