Cooley High (1975)
7/10
Graffiti on the L
16 May 2022
I don't know why I was interested in this movie. Watching it looks like a movie with not very polished technical elements, but that sure doesn't matter. This is a movie with heart. "American Graffiti" was the inspiration, but this is innecity style. Yet the characters are just as loveable, the music is so essential to the atmosphere, the episodes are just as silly and fun and eventually dangerous.

The serious turn it took in the last 15 minutes didn't really work but it was handled with committment.

As much good as one can credit this movie, it is also quite evident that without actors as great as Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and especially Glynn, Turman, this could have come off as crap.
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