Grier is an actress able to convey an amazing and unflinching strength, and she reveals the film for the dross it is.
Foxy Brown (1974)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:10
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: FOXY BROWN is Pam Grier's landmark Blaxploitation film, in which she creates the iconic character imitated in films by directors from Spike Lee to Quentin Tarantino. Grier plays Foxy, a toughened... FOXY BROWN is Pam Grier's landmark Blaxploitation film, in which she creates the iconic character imitated in films by directors from Spike Lee to Quentin Tarantino. Grier plays Foxy, a toughened woman living in a drug-plagued Los Angeles ghetto who goes on a one-woman mission of vengeance after her undercover cop boyfriend (Terry Carter) is shot down in the street. The badass lass goes undercover herself, as a call girl for the evil mistress of the drug cartel (Kathryn Loder), and with the help of a neighborhood vigilante committee, wreaks some hell on the bad guys. Highlights include a lesbian bar brawl and Foxy's sexual belittling of an old white judge. Co-stars include Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, and Sally-Ann Stroud. Don't miss the crazily colored opening credits, which feature Grier boogying down in all sorts of super-sexy outfits to the Willie Hutch title track (Hutch also composed the groovy funk score). This was directed by cult icon Jack Hill, who also scored with Grier in the previous year's COFFY. Chock full of sex, nudity and rampant violence, FOXY BROWN is visceral in a way that today's movies cannot be. Its treatment of graphic subjects is purposely shocking, to undermine studio conventions of the time, making Foxy's revenge especially exciting to watch. [More]
Starring: Pam Grier, Terry Carter, Antonio Fargas, Kathryn Loder
Starring: Pam Grier, Terry Carter, Antonio Fargas, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe, Sid Haig, Peter Brown
Director: Jack Hill
Director: Jack Hill
Screenwriter: Jack Hill
Producer: Buzz Feitshans
Reviews for Foxy Brown
The unapologetically exploitative proceedings take a turn for the disturbingly nasty, but manage to generate an undeniable adrenaline rush.
This is fun action sleaze from the classic era of drive-in blaxploitation films, driven by the no-nonsense direction of Jack Hill, and did well enough at the box office to help put the still-gorgeous Pam Grier on the map. Don't miss it.
The film is dated, but its mixed message -- and its potential to offend virtually everyone -- still makes it a powerful discussion starter.
Miss Grier is obviously durable but, unfortunately, is fast becoming a bore despite all the sex, brawls and gore in Foxy Brown.
A cult classic that's best enjoyed with your tongue firmly in cheek and your political correctness gene locked out in the backyard.
Vigilante-justice film flickers between camp and chauvinism, slam-bang action and sexist idiocy.
Foxy Brown exists to give us some shocks and a good time, which it definitely delivers.
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