Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 01/18/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 1
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like
American Graffiti,
Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high-school seniors prepare for post-high-school life. The chums are
Glynn Turman as "
Preach," who loves to read poetry and history and wants to become a Hollywood screenwriter, but who has the worst grades in the school; and
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as
Cochise, the high-school basketball star and suave lady-killer.
Preach has to contend with love problems in the form of
Brenda (
Cynthia Davis), school problems with emphatic teacher
Mr. Mason (
Garrett Morris), and law problems with street toughs
Stone (
Shermann Smith) and
Robert (
Norman Gibson).
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
