Friday Foster
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Movie Reviews of Friday Foster
Movie Review: Hey, Whatcha Doin' Girl?
Summary: 4 Stars
Friday Foster may not be Foxy Brown, but it's well worth your time if you're into this genre. It does have a catchy little theme song! It doesn't have alot of the action and violence of other Grier films, it's more about unravelling a conspiracy. Jim Backus is given high billing, but only appears in one scene. Carl Weathers is at the bottom of the billing, but appears in most of the film-But that's a good thing, coz who doesn't like Carl Weathers? Yaphet Koto, as usual, is a joy, and actually gets a few laughs. For those like myself who occasionally fantasize coming home from work to find a naked Pam Grier in the kitchen making goulash, will enjoy the two topless scenes. Foster sure has no problem jumping into the sack with people in this one. Basically all I can say about Friday Foster is that it's a sure bet if you dig Pam Grier and/or blaxploitation movies. I know I dig.Movie Review: good film during the wane of black action flicks
Summary: 3 Stars
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Friday Foster, based on the 1970's era comic strip by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longaron, is about a young black woman magazine photographer. In the original strips, Friday was the assistant to a white photographer; in the film, it's Friday herself who's the shutterbug. Friday (Pam Grier) works for Glamour magazine, and her boss (Julius Harris) sends her to cover the airport arrival of Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala) a self-made billionaire, and apparently the richest black man in the world. Friday gets more than she bargained for as this presumably ordinary assignment turns into an attempted murder, with Tarr as the target. Friday got photos of the hit men, so she becomes a target as well. As it so happens, Tarr is organizing a massive meeting of influential African-Americans at his vast estate; it figures to be an agenda-planning affair for black America. The bad guys (who are for now anonymous) don't take kindly to a black think-tank getting traction, and Friday's misadventures lead her to discover that someone plans to murder everyone who attends this event.
Her partner in (fighting) crime is Colt (Yaphet Kotto), a private detective who likes Friday, but with him she keeps it strictly platonic. She reserves her romantic side for Tarr and for Senator David Lee Hart (Paul Benjamin). A pre-Rocky Carl Weathers (as the hit-man Yarbro) gives chase to Friday for much of the film, and a pre-Love Boat Ted Lange is a young pimp who openly pines for Friday to join his enterprise. Other notable actors in the film include Earth Kitt, Scatman Crothers, Godfrey Cambridge, and Mr. Howell himself, Jim Backus. The action in the film is fast and slick, and the narrative manages to maintain a certain knowing campiness, despite the presumably serious political intrigue of the plot.
Produced and released during the wane of the black-action film trend of the 1970's, the film met with modest response at the box office; a few years later, Hollywood abandoned low-budgeted action fare aimed at ethnics for bigger-budget 'mass-appeal' blockbusters.
Movie Review: Light hearted Blaxploitation picture starring the Queen of the genre.
Summary: 3 Stars
Pam Grier is delightful in this lighter than usual Blaxploitation picture that gives Grier a more meaty role than usual.
In the film she plays a Photo Journalist for a Fashion Magazine who gets mixed up in an assassination attempt on a politician.
The film fearures some reliable actors like Yaphet Kotto,a young,Carl Weathers and Scatman Crothers and plenty of the requisite hilarious action scenes this genre is known for.
Of course,Grier also has some skin scnes,not as explicit as the classic scenes offered in Coffy(1972) or Hit Man(1973),but still Grier in a shower and a hot tub is hard to resist for her fans.
All in all,harmless action fare for fans of the genre and of the lovely star.
Movie Review: Slam, Bam, Thank You, Pam!
Summary: 3 Stars
There are only two special features on this DVD, and they both belong to Pam Grier. And that's reason enough to buy it! She has two nude scenes in this lackluster blaxploitation thriller that largely fails to thrill, and her sparkle is the only spark here. A good cast, including Jim Backus, Earha Kitt, Carl Weathers, Scatman Crothers, and Yaphet Kotto, is wasted here, but they try their best with what they're given. The movie is in widescreen and the image quality is excellent. There's the movie trailer and a scene and language selector, and that's it. For `70s blaxploitation genre fans and Pam Grier fans only, but that's quite a large audience!Movie Review: So-So Pam Grier Vehicle
Summary: 3 Stars
Pam Grier is fine as the spunky photo-journalist title character and Yaphet Kotto is amusing as her P.I. sidekick helping her ferret out the "black widow" conspiracy. Their efforts are essentially for naught in this sluggishly directed actioner that has the substance of your average Spelling-Goldberg production. Lots of prominent African-American talent on hand(Eartha Kitt, Godfrey Cambridge, Scatman Crothers,etc.) but their impact is marginal. What this film needed was Sid Haig!