In 1964, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through the end of high school and the dramatic end to their school year.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1964, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through the end of high school and the dramatic end to their school year.
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| NewsweekMargo JeffersonCooley High has the same youth-movie energy that defines some of the genre’s greats: American Graffiti, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. All of these films run on the mischievous, unfounded optimism that characterizes our teenage years. They make you nostalgic for naivete. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...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. |
| The DissolveCraig J. ClarkIt’s tempting to characterize Cooley High as the inner-city answer to American Graffiti—trading out Modesto’s hot rods for Chicago’s elevated trains—but there’s a specificity to screenwriter (and Good Times co-creator) Eric Monte’s memories of growing up on the Near North Side in the early 1960s that transcends mere imitation. |
| The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdWith its sprawling cast of characters, digressive plot, and hit soundtrack (in this case, a boisterous Motown primer), Cooley High has been compared to another last-days-of-youth movie that came out just two years earlier, American Graffiti. Both films inevitably lace their fun with melancholy, chasing a long, wild coming-of-age bacchanal with the impending hangover of adult life. Difference is, Cooley High’s eulogy for childhood turns out to be much more sadly literal. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzSometimes engaging comical and poignant black experience high school teen flick. |
| Film Freak CentralBill ChambersThe film's resistance of pathos starts to feel not just counterintuitive, but also a little ghoulish |
| TheWorldJournal.comFrank OchiengA crafty and cunning black teen comedy that exudes a slick urban giddiness...an ethnically irreverent big screen answer to television's Happy Days |
| User ReviewNorma TThis is one of my favorite all time movies. I can watch it over and over again! |
| User ReviewCarlos CSo perfectly old school. really love this movie. There's a lot of truth's in it. |
| User ReviewWarren BThis is way before my time but i loved it and watched it countless numbers of time. GREAT LAUGHS AND CRYS. "You're under arrest for being ugly"...lol.. |
