Friday Foster (1975)

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   punjab551

   Yaphet Kotto and Pam Grier are really great together in this, and it's full of a great mix of supporting actors like Scatman Crothers and Eartha Kitt.
   
   There's also a weird shot where it's definitely suggested Pam Grier has a threesome with a senator and another rich dude, which only Pam Grier could pull off. 6 years 11 months ago
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   Siskoid

   The Friday Foster comic strip was already gone by the time Pam Grier played her in 1975, but it explains why the film seems to be one in a series, with its own theme song, opening sequence, and pre-existing supporting cast. It's both the film's strength and its weakness. On the one hand, it seems very confident as a result, and while Friday isn't Grier's most badass role, the character's lightness means it's perhaps one of her most beautiful. Unfortunately, it also does feel like it's a random episode from some television show (albeit in a universe where TV shows have foul language, harsh violence, and women gratuitously taking their shirts off any time they can) with its convoluted crime plot and recurring gags. Setting part of the story in Washington D.C. gives it some production value, but if this one continues to interest, it's because it has one of the most recognizable casts in blaxploitation history: Yephet Kotto (Live and Let Die) is a handsome P.I.; Eartha Kitt camps it up in a role that's just half an inch from her Catwoman; Scatman Crothers is a dirty old reverend; and young Carl Weathers shows up as the main assassin! Oh and Jim Backus (Gilligan's Island's millionaire) is in it too, as is the ubiquitous Jason Bernard (you'll know him when you see him). It all amounts to a bit of fun starring the grande dame of blaxploitation. 1 year 11 months ago

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