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Cooley High | Year: 1975 Directed: - Michael Schultz Actors/Actresses: - Lawrence Hilton Jacobs - Glynn Turman My Favorite Movie While I was growing up in Chicago - I loved watching the movie for references to things familiar. Every time I watched it though I couldn't stop the tears from falling at the end. I just had to sit and watch the movie whenever it came on tv - but of course there were too many commercial interruptions. Over the years I was able to capture it on tape with the commercials and then later a friend got the non-edited version. Now that I'm all grown up I have the DVD version - even better!! With the wonderful acting and music in the movie, it's hard not to love it. Although I didn't grow up in the 60s, I heard enough of my moms music to recognize the words to the songs and was able to sing along. The comedy is there, the drama is there, the music is definitely there! This movie is a classic and belongs in the collectors library! Good to see where Freddie Boom-Boom Washington (Welcome Back Carter) and Colonel Taylor (A Different World) have evolved as actors! The original "Boyz N the Hood" flick All of the Black "coming-of-age" films of the 90s -- such as "Boyz N the Hood", "Juice", and even the more romantic "Jason's Lyric" -- owe a debt to "Cooley High". It's as much a classic as "American Graffiti". See familiar faces when they were much younger, like Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Garrett Morris. See Robert Townsend's QUICK cameo (on the basketball court in the gym). See the seeds of what would later become the "What's Happening" TV show (Preach, the skinny writer with glasses became Roger, the skinny writer with glasses). See a death scene that had viewers in tears years before the death scene in "Boyz N the Hood". Hear the original version of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (Had Boys II Men even been born in 1975?) No doubt about it, there will never be another "Cooley High". [I can't listen to the song "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" by the Four Tops without thinking of this film. Once you see it, you'll understand why.] Excellent! A sad ending for a great film. This was not some cheap, run of the mill Black 70's movie. It was well acted with a solid plot with very good direction, a definite classic. Buy Cooley High at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Cooley High Search with the Priority Search Engine on Cooley High This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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