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Cooley High
The story began in the mid-1960s, when a group of high school friends living on the Lower North Side of Chicago spoke differently, lounging, meeting new friends. After a long time in the friendship, two of them wish to make it great in their own way, but not everyone who meets them is looking for them. Perhaps there might be something different and mysterious.
18 September 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 February 1937, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
7 January 1949, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
6 July 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 30, 2003
A crafty and cunning black teen comedy that exudes a slick urban giddiness...an ethnically irreverent big screen answer to television's Happy Days
April 27, 2015
There's a specificity to screenwriter Eric Monte's memories of growing up on the Near North Side in the early 1960s that transcends mere imitation.
April 01, 2008
Sometimes engaging comical and poignant black experience high school teen flick.
January 01, 2000
Uneven but generally funny.
January 24, 2004
The film's resistance of pathos starts to feel not just counterintuitive, but also a little ghoulish
November 29, 2012
...emphasizes the thin line that exists between a life of promise and a life of prison (or worse, death) for kids growing up in a neighborhood like this.
February 09, 2006
Something of a disappointment.
