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Coffy Reviews

1974

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Pam Grier rocketed to stardom as the queen of blaxploitation films with this big cult hit. Director Jack Hill, who had launched her film career two years earlier with THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, here casts Grier as a hardworking nurse out to avenge her smack-addicted 11-year-old sister by waging a one-woman war on Los Angeles drug .. Read more

Starring	Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert Doqui, William Elliott
Director	Jack Hill
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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- Superficially just another black exploitation film (one of the first to feature a woman in a strong central role),... read more on Time Out
- 45785
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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- - 15
  - 7
  Coffy is the colour
  
  Coffy is the colour of excess. Everything in this black diamond of a picture is outlandish and overblown, save for the central performance, a subtle portrayal ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Toby
  - 3 reviews
  - Wootton
  - 14 Nov 2007 at 21:56
Most recent members' reviews of Coffy
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- - 0
  - 0
  Funk on legs
  
  Coffy was a most enjoyable film. Knowing it was pre Death Wish I found it to be groundbreaking for time. It is funk on legs, cool as cucumber and not for anyone... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Hull
  - 03 Feb 2009 at 15:37
- - 15
  - 7
  Coffy is the colour
  
  Coffy is the colour of excess. Everything in this black diamond of a picture is outlandish and overblown, save for the central performance, a subtle portrayal ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 494839
- - Toby
  - 3 reviews
  - Wootton
  - 14 Nov 2007 at 21:56
- - 0
  - 0
  Cream & Sugar - Optional
  
  Grier plays tough-as-nails vixen-turned-avenging-angel in this 1973 blaxploitation flick. Yeah, she poses as a Jamaican hooker named Mystique, hides a bunch of ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 418741
- - Jordan Sadler
  - Ipswich, England
  - 10 Mar 2007 at 10:10
- - 1
  - 0
  Brilliant Blaxploitation thriller
  
  Before QT (Quentin Tarantino) Pam Grier was an established star in many blaxploitations flicks like this one. Here she was never better than as a vengeful nurse... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 83801
- - Stephen Lindsay
  - Northern Ireland
  - 21 Mar 2005 at 19:13
- - 0
  - 0
  You for Coffy?
  
  Quentin Tarantino has said he likes director Jack Hill's tales of vengeance because when Pam Grier's heroine takes revenge there are no half measures. ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 324282
- - scoop55
  - Berkshire
  - 23 Feb 2005 at 13:01
- - 0
  - 0
  A fabulous example of blaxploitation
  
  How brilliant is this movie?
  
  It is all that you would expect from this genre and does not disappoint.
  
  Pam Grier is brilliant.
  
  ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 66530
- - S Williams
  - London, England
  - 24 Jan 2005 at 09:18
- - 0
  - 0
  Rivoting
  
  What can I say this film had me rivoted from start to finish, and Coffy what a woman she sure can handle me anytime.
  
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- 64318
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 14 Jan 2005 at 22:28
- - 7
  - 5
  Blax-tastic!
  
  This 1974 drive-in ?classic? reunited two of the finest purveyors of 70s B-movies ? Pam Grier and Jack Hill. Whilst the pair had worked together previously in ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 7901
- - Clucky
  - Cardiff, Wales
  - 18 Jun 2004 at 11:28
- - 7
  - 7
  Needed: Coffee for Coffy
  
  Watching the trailer for Coffy, it became clear that (a) Coffy got soul, (b) No matter how hard she may try in ?Austin Powers: Goldmember?, Beyonce Knowles is ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 6942
- - David Levy
  - Totteridge, London
  - 03 Jun 2004 at 11:10
View all members' reviews (9)

- - 15
  - 7
  Coffy is the colour
  
  Coffy is the colour of excess. Everything in this black diamond of a picture is outlandish and overblown, save for the central performance, a subtle portrayal ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 494839
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Toby
  - 3 reviews
  - Wootton
  - 14 Nov 2007 at 21:56
- - 7
  - 5
  Blax-tastic!
  
  This 1974 drive-in ?classic? reunited two of the finest purveyors of 70s B-movies ? Pam Grier and Jack Hill. Whilst the pair had worked together previously in ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 7901
- - Clucky
  - Cardiff, Wales
  - 18 Jun 2004 at 11:28
- - 1
  - 0
  Brilliant Blaxploitation thriller
  
  Before QT (Quentin Tarantino) Pam Grier was an established star in many blaxploitations flicks like this one. Here she was never better than as a vengeful nurse... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 83801
- - Stephen Lindsay
  - Northern Ireland
  - 21 Mar 2005 at 19:13
- - 7
  - 7
  Needed: Coffee for Coffy
  
  Watching the trailer for Coffy, it became clear that (a) Coffy got soul, (b) No matter how hard she may try in ?Austin Powers: Goldmember?, Beyonce Knowles is ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 6942
- - David Levy
  - Totteridge, London
  - 03 Jun 2004 at 11:10
- - 0
  - 0
  Rivoting
  
  What can I say this film had me rivoted from start to finish, and Coffy what a woman she sure can handle me anytime.
  
  Report this review
- 64318
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 14 Jan 2005 at 22:28
- - 0
  - 0
  A fabulous example of blaxploitation
  
  How brilliant is this movie?
  
  It is all that you would expect from this genre and does not disappoint.
  
  Pam Grier is brilliant.
  
  ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 66530
- - S Williams
  - London, England
  - 24 Jan 2005 at 09:18
- - 0
  - 0
  You for Coffy?
  
  Quentin Tarantino has said he likes director Jack Hill's tales of vengeance because when Pam Grier's heroine takes revenge there are no half measures. ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 324282
- - scoop55
  - Berkshire
  - 23 Feb 2005 at 13:01
- - 0
  - 0
  Cream & Sugar - Optional
  
  Grier plays tough-as-nails vixen-turned-avenging-angel in this 1973 blaxploitation flick. Yeah, she poses as a Jamaican hooker named Mystique, hides a bunch of ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 418741
- - Jordan Sadler
  - Ipswich, England
  - 10 Mar 2007 at 10:10
- - 0
  - 0
  Funk on legs
  
  Coffy was a most enjoyable film. Knowing it was pre Death Wish I found it to be groundbreaking for time. It is funk on legs, cool as cucumber and not for anyone... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 701156
- - a customer
  - Hull
  - 03 Feb 2009 at 15:37

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- Superficially just another black exploitation film (one of the first to feature a woman in a strong central role),... read more on Time Out
- 45785
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16

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  Pam Grier rocketed to stardom as the queen of blaxploitation films with this big cult hit. Director Jack Hill, who had launched her film career two years earlier with THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, here casts Grier as a hardworking nurse out to avenge her smack-addicted 11-year-old sister by waging a one-...