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Cooley High is a 1975 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best friends, Leroy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Turman) and Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs).
With Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis. In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
Set in 1964 Chicago, "Cooley High" is a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life and growing up in the shadows of the housing...
Jun 26, 2015 · A classic of black cinema celebrated its 40th birthday on June 25. Cooley High showed a slice of urban life rarely seen in "blaxploitation" movies of the time. Set in Chicago's Cabrini-Green ...
Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), a local basketball hero, and Leroy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Turman), who dreams of a career in writing, are likable Chicago high school students...
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But perhaps the greatest fulfillment of Monte’s childhood promise to bring to the screen heroic Black characters is Cooley High, the 1975 coming-of-age film he wrote that is considered among the...
In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
Cooley High. Chicago, 1964: it’s the end of high school for aspiring poet Preach and his best friend, Cochise, and they have a full slate of extracurricular activities: swinging dance parties, late-night joyrides, and the stumbling pursuit of romance.
Dec 13, 2022 · M ichael Schultz’s Cooley High (1975) is not only a funny and intensely touching film about Black adolescents—a rarity for its time—but also one of the great coming-of-age movies.
Jun 25, 2015 · Amid the blaxploitation craze, Cooley High showed a slice of urban life rarely seen on the big screen. It is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in Chicago's notorious...