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Coffy [VHS]

Coffy [VHS]Director: Jack Hill
Actors: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott (II), Allan Arbus
Studio: Orion / MGM
Category: Video

List Price: $14.98
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Seller: ytoung100
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 reviews
Sales Rank: 17265

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 0792899679
UPC: 651021100547
EAN: 9780792899679
ASIN: 0792899679

Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1973
Release Date: January 5, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he never lets up on the down-and-dirty action. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by glib, smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating.

There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. Mob strong-arm Sid Haig (Spider Baby) cackles while dragging his victim (a strutting peacock pimp played by Nashville's Robert DoQui) behind a speeding car in a sadistic lynching, and Grier runs down one bad guy with a speeding car and takes care of another with a shotgun to the groin. Hill had previously directed Grier in The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. Their next and last picture together, Foxy Brown, was originally written as the sequel to Coffy. --Sean Axmaker


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3 out of 5 stars simple plot   June 15, 2009
R. Faircloth
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

not much of a story, plot is very basic. Pam Grier makes it three stars for her pretty face and hot body, which you get a few peeks at in the movie. I would just wait for it to come on tv and watch it, unless you can find it for a few bucks,


5 out of 5 stars Coffy   June 6, 2009
Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
Coffy, Sexy Pam Grier is in this Blaxploitation film, which has all the matters of the time and the circumstances, Action Packed, Coffy(Pam) is Seductive and sexy and in her prime, One of the Best If not the Best Pam Grier movies, There is alot of sick criminals in this film and violence not recommended and certainly behavior I do not condone, But it's a Movie, It has a Gruesome part where a Man Who had information leading to Pam to find her Little sis, He get's his head blown off, and the End will shock you. Excellent yet sadly small part of a Green 70-72 style Corvette Roadster w/period wheels is shown.also Pam is seen nude in the movie.and there is a hot cat fight.Cool Soundtrack too.I have the Vhs Video!


5 out of 5 stars Coffy by Pam Grier   June 4, 2009
Mr. Big (Tacoma)
Love this movie the acting is bad, the writing suck, but somehow Pam makes it all ok, it's so bad it's good, I can watch it over and over.


4 out of 5 stars A Good Cup of Coffy   January 6, 2009
Space Opera (New Port Richey, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

"Coffy" like the product of a similar name is a guilty pleasure. We know it may be lacking nutritional value but we love it just the same. As a slice of the 1970's pop culture with bell bottoms and embarrassingly bizarre, flashy fashions it is an icon. The plot is comic bookie with cardboard bad guys set up to be mowed down but then there's Pam Grier. She's delicious and sweet with a powerful kick. Watch and enjoy.


5 out of 5 stars Have A Cup   December 13, 2008
Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

At some point in time, Mankind must have done something to really please the Lord coz he rewarded us with Pam Grier. Pam Grier-You know, that supercool, deadly chick that's hot as a Friday Night Fish Fry?
Well, she's never been better than she was in Coffy-her signature role. It's a rather simple revenge/vigilante type story. Coffy's a nurse and her younger sister has been all but destroyed by drug addiction, so Coffy becomes an Angel Of Death, blowing away drug pushers, pimps, Sid Haig, and other unpleasant folks. And of course looking great the whole time. It's easy for her to catch her targets off guard considering all of them are horny guys she can easily move in on. She starts working her way up the ladder and finds just how high this drug dealing thing goes.
Written and directed by Jack Hill(he did the awesome cult flick Spider Baby), this is easily one of the most entertaining films of the Blaxploitation era.....easily. Superviolent, supersexy, superfun, and all around just superentertaining.
Very highly recommended, especially if you want to see why Pam became the icon she is today.


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