Glynn Turman
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Jun 26, 2015 · 40 Years Later, The Cast Of 'Cooley High' Looks Back. Rick Stone (left) was a gang member from Cabrini-Green who was asked to play himself in Cooley High. A classic of black cinema...
Summaries. In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), a local basketball hero, and Leroy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Turman), who dreams of a career in writing, are likable Chicago high school students ...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG
Cooley High. Chicago, 1964: it’s the end of high school for aspiring poet Preach and his best friend, Cochise, and they have a full slate of extracurricular activities: swinging dance parties, late-night joyrides, and the stumbling pursuit of romance.
Dec 13, 2022 · By Craigh Barboza. Essays — Dec 13, 2022. M ichael Schultz’s Cooley High (1975) is not only a funny and intensely touching film about Black adolescents—a rarity for its time—but also one of the great coming-of-age movies.
Jun 25, 2015 · Derek John. Amid the blaxploitation craze, Cooley High showed a slice of urban life rarely seen on the big screen. It is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in Chicago's notorious...
Cooley High is a 1975 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best friends, Leroy "Preach" Jackson and Richard "Cochise" Morris. Written by Eric Monte and directed by Michael Schultz, the film, primarily shot in Chicago, was a major hit at the box office, grossing over $13 million (USD).
