Starring: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus Directed by: Jack Hill Binding: DVD Published: 2001-01-09 ISBN: 0792848276
She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier, and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun, a razor or just her bare hands, she doesn't miss a beat in this "smashing, no-holds-barred tale of retaliation" (Variety)! Nobody ever commandeered the screen quite like Pam Grier...and Coffy "couldn't be better! [It's] one of the most entertaining movies ever made"(Quentin Tarantino)! Grier is Coffy, nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has been doped upand freaked outby a greedy drug pusher, she not only puts an end to his miserable days, but she vows to follow his trail of corruption up to the topthe very top. But what Coffy doesn't realize is that all is not as it seemsand that the leafy green behind the pushers' scene just may come from someone she knows!
In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he never lets up on the down-and-dirty action. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by glib, smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating.
There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. Mob strong-arm Sid Haig (Spider Baby) cackles while dragging his victim (a strutting peacock pimp played by Nashville's Robert DoQui) behind a speeding car in a sadistic lynching, and Grier runs down one bad guy with a speeding car and takes care of another with a shotgun to the groin. Hill had previously directed Grier in The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. Their next and last picture together, Foxy Brown, was originally written as the sequel to Coffy. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
simple plot:
not much of a story, plot is very basic. Pam Grier makes it three stars for her pretty face and hot body, which you get a few peeks at in the movie. I would just wait for it to come on tv and watch it, unless you can find it for a few bucks,
Coffy:
Coffy, Sexy Pam Grier is in this Blaxploitation film, which has all the matters of the time and the circumstances, Action Packed, Coffy(Pam) is Seductive and sexy and in her prime, One of the Best If not the Best Pam Grier movies, There is alot of sick criminals in this film and violence not recommended and certainly behavior I do not condone, But it's a Movie, It has a Gruesome part where a Man Who had information leading to Pam to find her Little sis, He get's his head blown off, and the End will shock... more info
Coffy by Pam Grier:
Love this movie the acting is bad, the writing suck, but somehow Pam makes it all ok, it's so bad it's good, I can watch it over and over.
A Good Cup of Coffy:
"Coffy" like the product of a similar name is a guilty pleasure. We know it may be lacking nutritional value but we love it just the same. As a slice of the 1970's pop culture with bell bottoms and embarrassingly bizarre, flashy fashions it is an icon. The plot is comic bookie with cardboard bad guys set up to be mowed down but then there's Pam Grier. She's delicious and sweet with a powerful kick. Watch and enjoy.
