Film · 1975 · Comedy drama
Cooley High
Directed by Michael Schultz
1975
★ 4.1 editorial score
The Black American Graffiti, and better: Chicago teenagers in 1964 with a wall-to-wall Motown soundtrack, and Michael Schultz films a few days of hanging around as if nothing mattered more.
“Cooley High follows a pair of high-school friends who spend their days avoiding school and chasing girls in a neighborhood of Chicago housing projects. Preach has dreams of being a Hollywood screenwriter, while Cochise has just landed a college basketball scholarship. Though surrounded by poverty Preach and Cochise persevere with the unbridled exuberance of youth.”
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