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My Favorite Movie...
This is probably my all-time favorite film, and I think it's because everything seems to work right: the atmosphere, the music(especially the title song "Coffy" with the classic refrain "Coffy is the color/Of her skin"), the gags, the actors, Pam Grier, everything. I especially like director Hill's choice to film some of the sleeziest parts of Los Angeles in order to tell the story; we see Watts, downtown, Malibu.

I recommend this film to everybody, as it's the kind of movie you put on for people, and, no matter what their movie taste is like, they always walk away enjoying "Coffy."

PAM GRIER IS FABULOUS!!!! A GODDESS!!!!
This, together with "Foxy Brown", are my two favorite Pam Grier films. Pam Grier kicked butt on both films. Not only she is a great actress, she was and still today IS a total sex goddess!!!! "Coffy" always gets me in the end. After all these men used her, and abused her, after she gets her revenge, kills them all, and at the final scene, the picture of Pam walking alone at the beach, and the song, always gets me. There are times in our lives that in one way or another, we go thru that.
We get screwed over by lovers or people we thought were our friends....and we end up walking away alone, but not defeated.
Right On Coffy!

They Didn't Call It Blaxploitation for Nothing
A minor digression before I review "Coffy". I remember some 20 years ago Siskel and Ebert doing a special show on the state of black cinema. They cited Pam Grier as an example of talented black actors who were underutilized. Grier was a superstar in the niche career that she carved out in "blaxploitation" films. When she went mainstream in "Fort Apache-The Bronx" the best role they could give her was that of a strung-out murderous prostitute. It took some 15 years for a maverick director like Quentin Tarantino to recognize the qualities that Grier brought to the big screen with "Jackie Brown". As for "Coffy" itself, if you're looking for this film as a serious examination of the drug problem that had, and still does, a stranglehold on the inner city then look elsewhere. Outside of a perfunctory scene of Coffy(Grier) visiting her baby sister in re-hab there is little else in the film that would give you food for thought. "Coffy" is high camp. Outside of Coffy's cop friend most of the other characters are played over-the-top. The film also consists of a series of outrageous violent confrontations most memorable Coffy blowing the head off of a drug dealer with a double barrelled shotgun. The film also takes every possible opportunity to show off Grier's impressive attributes. Grier has a definite screen presence but she's not the polished actress here that she would later become. There's a certain stiltedness in some of her line deliveries. Bottom line, entertaining show. On a final note, Sid Haig who plays Omar the thug here would later portray a judge in "Jackie Brown".

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