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Touching
The film "Cooley High" is touching, heart warming, tragic, and poignant in ways we can only imagine any film to be, and that I will not even attempt to fully discuss. So often this film is compared to American Graffiti another incredible coming of age film, but by doing this we miss the point. Cooley High is the antithesis but the same as American Graffiti. Whereas you had white america who had American Graffiti illustrate their watershed adolescent moments, African-Americans (particularly those in impoverished neighborhoods or the projects like Cabrini Green which is where Preach lived) had Cooley high.

The story is one of loyalty, companionship, pragmatism, survival, death and ultimately re-birth. I would encourage anyone and everyone to watch Cooley High with their kids, not to denigrate or make fun of, but to see into these kids lives for one instance.

Love it
Cooley High is a wonderful movie. It is funny and sad at the same time. I am happy that it is on DVD, because I have a VHS copy and I can forward to my favorite scenes. You must own this.

The original "Boyz N the Hood" flick
All of the Black "coming-of-age" films of the 90s -- such as "Boyz N the Hood", "Juice", and even the more romantic "Jason's Lyric" -- owe a debt to "Cooley High". It's as much a classic as "American Graffiti". See familiar faces when they were much younger, like Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Garrett Morris. See Robert Townsend's QUICK cameo (on the basketball court in the gym). See the seeds of what would later become the "What's Happening" TV show (Preach, the skinny writer with glasses became Roger, the skinny writer with glasses). See a death scene that had viewers in tears years before the death scene in "Boyz N the Hood". Hear the original version of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (Had Boys II Men even been born in 1975?) No doubt about it, there will never be another "Cooley High". [I can't listen to the song "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" by the Four Tops without thinking of this film. Once you see it, you'll understand why.]

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