Cult blaxploitation classic from Jack Hill, starring Pam Grier in one of her best roles. What a great rack on her too!

Somewhere in the world there is a master list of Blaxploitation Film Tropes and this movie checks off most of the boxes.

Also, Antonio "Huggybear" Fargas!

My first blaxploitation movie! I’d appreciate any recs anyone wants to throw my way. I know this was originally supposed to be a sequel to Coffy and that the two films are apparently almost identical. This has everything I’d come to expect from the subgenre; rough around the edges, reveling in depicting part of a (still) underrepresented culture using a barely there framework of sex, brawls, crime and funky beats.

But Foxy Brown is just an excuse to showcase the incandescent Pam Grier, both her body and beauty, her general physical presence and her no-nonsense demeanor. Grier can’t really act, and yet, she’s just to die for. I could watch her for eons and the film’s appeal hinges mostly on her. Foxy Brown is entertaining, boring, sleazy, offensive, well-paced, outrageous, exploitative and kitschy in equal measure. Grier’s wardrobe is 70’s print-heaven.

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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This was a first time watch for me, and I was still on my 70's exploitation kick when I put this Jack Hill classic on my netflix list. This was one of the more recognizable titles that I remembered, one of Pam Grier's more famous roles.
The story was good, I really liked Grier in this, and it was pretty funny as well. I would say that the quality of the film is actually higher than most exploitation, maybe because it had a larger budget.
IDK what else there is to say, Grier kicks ass and takes names, when she poses as a hooker to destroy a crime family from the inside. I definitely recommend it.

Vintage Pam Grier. SO hot.

i know this movie is a classic but IT STILL DOESN'T GET ENOUGH CREDIT! it is so jam packed with awesome that it's 90 minute run run time feels like 15. Pam Grier is incredible & Jack Hill should have won an Oscar.

Apparently vigilante justice is as American as apple pie. Who knew? I really enjoyed this 70s blaxpoitation movie. It's so entertaining and energetic. Pam Grier is so awesome. And she has really aged wonderfully. She looks the same in Jackie Brown as she did here and looks the same now as she did in Jackie Brown.

Pam bears her considerable assets often, and bless her for it. The plot is pretty simple revenge, but it keeps surprising you -- never thought I see a lesbian bar, gruesome airplane death, and no big reveal that the villain is a guy (I could have sworn she was). And why does every blaxploitation film suffer from homphobia? I have yet to see one that doesn't have a black woman calling a white man a "faggot."

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

What was up with that lesbian bar?

My first blaxploitation movie! I’d appreciate any recs anyone wants to throw my way. I know this was originally supposed to be a sequel to Coffy and that the two films are apparently almost identical. This has everything I’d come to expect from the subgenre; rough around the edges, reveling in depicting part of a (still) underrepresented culture using a barely there framework of sex, brawls, crime and funky beats.

But Foxy Brown is just an excuse to showcase the incandescent Pam Grier, both her body and beauty, her general physical presence and her no-nonsense demeanor. Grier can’t really act, and yet, she’s just to die for. I could watch her for eons and the film’s appeal hinges mostly on her. Foxy Brown is entertaining, boring, sleazy, offensive, well-paced, outrageous, exploitative and kitschy in equal measure. Grier’s wardrobe is 70’s print-heaven.

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