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Cooley High
The mid-sixties of the last century, a dramatic story turns into an exciting young meaning. That story began with a group of high school friends who live on the lower north side of Chicago, where there is fun and youthful excitement. These young people still hang around and meet new friends wherever they go. But over time, one day, two of them want to make it big in their own way, but maybe it's not what they expect it to happen.
1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 August 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 February 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 January 1949, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
4 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
18 September 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 01, 2008
Sometimes engaging comical and poignant black experience high school teen flick.
May 30, 2003
A crafty and cunning black teen comedy that exudes a slick urban giddiness...an ethnically irreverent big screen answer to television's Happy Days
January 01, 2000
Uneven but generally funny.
January 24, 2004
The film's resistance of pathos starts to feel not just counterintuitive, but also a little ghoulish
April 27, 2015
There's a specificity to screenwriter Eric Monte's memories of growing up on the Near North Side in the early 1960s that transcends mere imitation.
February 09, 2006
Something of a disappointment.
November 29, 2012
...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.