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"A landmark movie!One of the year's most important and heartening!" - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Often called 'the black American Graffiti' - but with "far more vitality and variety" (The New York Times), Cooley High takes a nostalgic, poignant - and hilariously funny - look at black teen life in 1960's Chicago.
It's 1964.JFK has just been assassinated.Martha & the Vandellas, Little Stevie Wonder and the Four Tops rule the airwaves.And two high school students discover themselves - and the taste of freedom - for the first time.Preach (Glynn Truman), a serious-minded writer, and his best friend Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), a basketball hero headed for college, are best friends at Cooley High.Together they cut classes to go to the | | |