After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Pam Grier Robert DoQui Sid Haig Booker Bradshaw William Elliott Allan Arbus Linda Haynes Barry Cahill Lee de Broux Ruben Moreno Lisa Farringer Carol Locatell John Perak Mwako Cumbuka Morris Buchanan Peaches Jones Jan-Minika Hughes Leslie McRay Ray Young Bob Minor Jeff Burton Wally Strauss Dick O'Shea Kim Williams Ellen Blake Lee Terry Gail Davis Lyman Ward Don Newsome Show All…
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Underrated genre: Pam Grier calling dudes "motherfucker" and then shotgunning them in the dick.
In this bleak and nasty exploitation film, against a backdrop of systemic corruption, a series of beautiful dresses struggle mightily to contain a chest.
With no mandate to make anything besides "a black revenge film," a meager budget, less than three weeks to shoot, and less than 90 minutes screen time, Pam Grier and Jack Hill touch on the "it's all connected" systemic corruption that would later be explored in The Wire," give the audience the thrill and ambivalence of successful vengeance that Tarantino mined for his Kill Bills, crib dramatic notes from Arthur Miller and Shakespeare (according to Hill himself), and still manage to have exploding heads and a striptease catfight to satisfy the unsavory genre requirements. Is it messy and conflicted? Hell yes, and I wouldn't have it any other way. This is film art.
Excessive violence, excessive nudity, excessive gender & racial stereotypes, excessive Pam Grier tour-de-force as a smokeshow badass motherfucker out to Death Wish her way through every bitch ass smack dealer that dares look her up and down. Some funky overly descriptive music here, a nip-slip extravaganza masquerading as a prostitute brawl there, maybe throw in a pimp’s lynched body getting dragged through a junkyard behind a speeding car and a crooked politician getting a shotgun blast to the crotch, and we have ourselves one of the true blaxploitation classics.
The war on drugs failed because it lacked three important things:
1) an abundance of exposed breasts
2) shotguns to the groin
3) Pam Grier saying "motherfucker"
It's all so clear to me now.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
it may surprise you to learn that i'm a little ambivalent about COFFY, which isn't to say i don't think it's iconic and entertaining. it's routinely talked about both in a feminist context and as a cornerstone of blaxploitation, and that's not entirely inappropriate, because it's a blast and Pammy is fucking terrific in it, delivering one surprisingly violent ass-kicking after another. she sexually manipulates and cruelly dispatches all manner of bad guys. but, crucially, also other women, and not just white ones.
then, a few minutes before he's revealed as the villain, Coffy's boyfriend, a councilman running for higher office, makes a big speech about how the white man uses drugs to socioeconomically control minorities, who he claims are…
“Coffy” is a film that doesn’t such much walk around with a chip on its shoulder. It lugs around a whole backpack of TNT.
The Pam Grier-starring blaxploitation flick came about after its production company lost rights to “Cleopatra Jones.” The studio decided to gin up its own competing release full of the same sex and arsenic.
That become “Coffy;” a film that shocks not just with its typically gritty acts of genre depravity… but also the deep respect it held for its female lead.
With a white director and producer, “Coffy” isn’t immune to the overall stickiness of blaxploitation’s portrayal of African American power as won solely through acts of violence and street justice.
But Coffy herself might have…
much more transgressive and radical in its’ politics than foxy brown, the most immediate comparison i can think of. hard to form coherent thoughts on the movie’s message and theme except to say that i think it’s just as interesting and vital as it is messy and gory. the violence and cruelty in this cuts in a way i didn’t expect. pam grier continues to be the biggest badass around.
After watching two blaxploitation films starring women, I think I prefer films in this genre that star heroines. For the most part, not only do these two actresses capture the swagger and spice that comes with these films, but there's something about the fact that they're anti-heroes rather than immoral people that makes me want to root for these characters.
Pam Grier excels in almost every aspect of this film. The film clearly seeks to objectify her sexually, but she manages not to be merely a sex symbol, instead proving to be arguably the best actress in a film rife with questionable performances, especially when it comes to delivering the dialogue. The story may be a little derivative, but that…
Favorite shot in this is a close-up of Coffy, looking on as a doctor gives the bad news about her cop used-to-be-boyfriend, who's been beaten half to death by a couple of cronies for trying to take on the bad guys' spiderweb of corruption. She got a little beat up herself in the bargain, but her eyes are all intense determination, with a little bit of fear mixed in. This kind of attention to character detail is miles ahead of what usually goes into an exploitation action-revenge joint, even the great ones, and to the extent that this works it works in large part thanks to the face in question, belonging to one of the truly great film stars of her own or any other era.
Certified dime piece Pam Grier wielding different types of shotguns and blasting holes through lowlifes and drug pushers, what's not to love? Not as enjoyably goofy as Foxy Brown imo, but still a quality blaxploitation picture. The score honks, the violence is rampant, there's plenty more tits & ass on display and the N-word is being tossed around almost as much as in a Tarantino film. Sit back, relax and enjoy this hot cup of Coffy.
🎶Coffy baby, sweet as a chocolate bar🎶
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Foxy Jackie Brown as Coffy, sweet as honey and deadly as a Black Mamba. A shotgun to the fuckin face. An honest cop. Reverse-police brutality. Pam Grier's voluptuous fine-ass body. A politician with big dreams. A Ho' tryout. A huge-ass cat-fight where only the winner doesn't lose her top. King George takes a ride. Sugar-smack will save your ass. Captain Spaulding's really-awful Russian accent. A glass eye blind spot. A poolside bloodbath. Roasted piggy. A nut-shot for fucking with the wrong lady. Coffy and Foxy Brown make the perfect Jack Hill double feature.
