Abstract: Summary: Chicago, 1964: it's the last weeks 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. Of course, when you're a young Black man in America, your coming-of-age story is far from complication-free. With Cooley High, director Michael Schultz and screenwriter Eric Monte, who drew on his own experiences growing up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project, arrived at something truly unique in 1970s cinema: an endearingly funny, tender, and authentic portrait of Black teens striving toward a brighter tomorrow, brought to life by a dynamic ensemble cast and set to a heavenly hit parade of Motown classics.
Notes: Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Wide screen.
New restored 4K digital transfer approved by the director.
Bonus features: conversation between Schultz and film scholar Racquel J. Gates; making of featurette; panel discussion from the 2019 tribute to Cooley High at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, featuring Schultz, actor-filmmaker Robert Townsend, casting director Gloria Schultz, and actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Garrett Morris ; an essay by critic Craigh Barboza.
MPAA rating: PG.
Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH).
Blu-ray; wide screen (16:9) presentation ; PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
English dialogue.
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