Runtime:
90 minutes
Directed
by: Arthur Marks
Starring:
Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Carl Weathers, Godfrey Cambridge, Scatman
Crothers
From:
AIP
First
off, I decided to cancel the remaining few days of my free Hulu Plus
trial month, so that I don't forget to do it and it was too late.
Hopefully sometime later I'll just pay the 8 bucks and I'll pick a
better 30 day time period where I can watch movies with little
distraction and also hopefully not have computer issues with trying
to watch something. In the meantime, I do have plenty to watch in
theatres for the rest of 2013, along with what I own and rentals from
Blockbuster.
Now,
because I just finished watching this movie on MGMHD (which is why
this is up late), here is Friday Foster, based upon a comic strip
noted for being the first major one to have a black leading
character. Of course, it was gone by the time this movie came out.
Whoops! The plot, stolen directly from the IMDb:
“Friday
Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles
International Airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the
richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr.
Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy
involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a
shadowy plan called "Black Widow".”
I
heard a podcast episode devoted to this movie; it came out about this
time last year and they explained that this was a minor film and not
as awesome as you'd hope given the cast and the lead especially. Pam
Grier isn't an awesome badass as she was in Coffy or Foxy Brown, both
movies I've talked at least a little about in the past.
As for this
movie, it's standard fare where Pam is more a damsel in distress who
has to be saved by others; usually it's Yaphet who does that.
Everything about it (well, at least the important things; not the
fashion, though... there are some hilarious outfits, especially the
duds that Weathers has on for one scene, which is black pants, a red
plaid coat, and a black and white tie which you never get a good look
at but I swear it's of a boy looking at a starry sky!) is acceptable
but not great or anything of that level. It's just a time-waster
you'll probably watch once or maybe twice but you certainly would
prefer to revisit Coffy or Foxy Brown more often.
At
least there's other famous faces, such as Eartha Kitt (!) who refers
to a character as “a f*ggot”! Wow, was I shocked to hear her
utter such language. Of course, the character she insults actually is
gay; there's a scene with him in a gay club that Pam and Yaphet visit
and thankfully it's not as appallingly offensive as it could have
been. Pam's boss is Julius Harris, probably best known as Tee Hee
from Live and Let Die. Jim Backus-wearing a leisure suit!-has a one
scene cameo and Isaac from The Love Boat (Ted Lange) plays a pimp who
tries to woo Grier. Yes, you do get to see Pam topless, but there are other movies you can view if you are dying to see her bare breasts.
I'll be back Thursday night.
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