Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 12/26/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: French/English/Espanol
Sound: 1
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Writer-director
Jack Hill (
Spider Baby,
Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat
Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime and deciding to fight back. Her little 11-year old sister is a hopeless addict, the police can't help, and poor Nurse "Coffy" Coffin (
Pam Grier) has no choice but to take the law into her own hands. Posing as a Jamaican prostitute, Coffy infiltrates the lairs of pimp King George (
Robert DoQui) and kingpin pusher Vitroni (
Allan Arbus). Eventually, after her childhood sweetheart is beaten into a coma and she finds out her politician-lover (
Booker Bradshaw) is involved, Coffy kills everyone with a shotgun. However, by having a black woman named Coffy get injected with a sugar mixture (the crooks think it's heroin), one can only imagine the filmmakers cackling about Coffy with cream and sugar. In fact, the original ad line promised "Coffy...she'll cream you!"
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
