Coffy
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| Directed by | Jack Hill |
| Produced by | Robert Papazian |
| Written by | Jack Hill |
| Starring | Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus, and Sid Haig |
| Music by | Roy Ayers |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 13, 1973 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Coffy is a 1973 blaxploitation film by American filmmaker Jack Hill.The story is about an African American woman vigilante, Pam Grier.
According to writer/director Hill, the project began when American International Pictures' head of production, Larry Gordon, lost the rights to the film Cleopatra Jones after making a handshake deal with the producers. Gordon subsequently approached Hill to quickly make a movie about an African American woman's revenge and beat Cleopatra Jones to market.
It is notable in its depiction of a strong female lead (a capable nurse), rare in the genre at the time, and also in its then-unfashionable antidrug message. It was remade (with an all-white cast) in 1981's Lovely But Deadly.
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[edit] Plot summary
In the movie, Grier plays Coffy, a nurse by day and vigilante by night who conducts a one-woman war on organized crime in Los Angeles after her sister becomes damaged by drugs. Along the way her police officer friend, Carter, is beaten into a coma, and her politician boyfriend, Howard, betrays her to the mob. Using every tool in her arsenal, from seduction to brute force, she eventually dispenses with every mafioso and crooked cop in the film.
[edit] Soundtrack
The soundtrack was done by Roy Ayers.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Coffy at the Internet Movie Database
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