Foxy Brown
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Actor: Antonio Fargas, Kathryn Loder, Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry CarterBrand: GRIER,PAM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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DVD Reviews of Foxy Brown
DVD Review: Pam Grier, that one chick hit squad who creamed you in Coffy, is back!
Summary: 4 Stars
Following the success of her film Coffy (1973), Pam Grier appeared in this film, titled Foxy Brown (1974), which was originally intended to be a sequel to Coffy titled "Burn, Coffy, Burn!", but was changed for some unknown reason by those at American International Pictures prior to filming to be a stand alone film, featuring a different, yet similar character. Written and directed by Jack Hill (Spider Baby, The Big Doll House, Switchblade Sisters), the film includes Antonio `Huggy Bear' Fargas (Cleopatra Jones, "Starsky and Hutch"), Terry Carter (Abby, "Battlestar Galactica"), Kathryn Loder (The Big Doll House), Sid Haig (Spider Baby, The Big Doll House), Juanita Brown (Caged Heat), and Peter Brown (Kitten with a Whip), who looks a lot like Bryan Cranston, the actor that played the father on the show "Malcolm in the Middle".
After an opening credit sequence obviously influenced by the works of Maurice Binder (Binder is probably best known for his opening credit sequences on many of the James Bond films) we see a character named Link Brown (Vargas)...he'll always be Huggy Bear to me...walking down the city street at night, being tailed by two hoodlum types in a car. During a slight reprieve he phones his sister, namely one Foxy Brown (Grier) for help, providing our first shot of Ms. Grier's naughty pillows. Just as Huggy, er...I mean Link is about to get a beat down of momentous proportions, Foxy shows up to save the day by running down the two muthas with her car. Seems Link, a low level pusher among other things, has gotten into a local criminal organization for a whole lot of bread (twenty G's, to be exact), and now they're looking for payment...with his life! Anyway, Link, being the sniveling, opportunistic worm he is decides to rat out Foxy's boyfriend Dalton (Carter), an undercover narcotics detective whose just had plastic surgery, to the gang in exchange for his skin, which results in Dalton, now known as Michael, ending up with a terminal case of lead poisoning. After a vengeful Foxy beats the crud out of Link, she decides to infiltrate the gang, which is led by a woman named Catherine (Loder) and her pretty boy toy Steve (Brown). Posing as a call girl, which the gang uses to appease local public officials (judges and what not) into looking the other way with regards to the criminal activities of those in their organization, Foxy soon finds herself a target of the gang, as they catch up with her after a brawl in a butch bar, and she's sent to an out of the way ranch where the gang processes their drugs. While there Foxy suffers some serious abuse (and we get another showing of Pam's amazing boobage), to which she eventually gets her revenge via some coat hangers and gasoline (you'll have to see the movie if you want more), and continues her vendetta against the gang, enlisting the aide of some Black Panther types from the neighborhood, all leading up to one heck of a finale that includes someone losing a particularly vital appendage...
While I thought this film not as tight as Coffy, it's still a lot of fun and provides a good example why Ms. Grier deserves the crown of Queen of the Blaxpoiltation genre, a title she may, or may not, bear with some amount of pride. As I mentioned earlier this film was originally meant to be a sequel to Coffy, but the powers that be at AIP decided not to go that route, and, as a result there are some weaknesses in terms of proper character development but that seems a fairly moot point as few went into this film looking for that kind of thing, even if it was present in Grier's earlier film. Grier doesn't seem to have the intensity here as displayed in Coffy, but even at half speed she's still a lot of fun to watch...and the fact she didn't seem shy about showing off her voluptuous figure didn't hurt, either (the sequences here were good, but those in Coffy were better). There's a number of memorable lines throughout the film, but the one that sticks out in my mind occurs when Foxy, posing as an escort, accompanies another woman to a gathering where they're supposed to provided entertainment for a sleazy judge. As the old man corrals the girls into a separate room one of the Judge's friends yells out the following...
"That's an awful lot of chocolate for one man, Fred!"
Nice...I did learn a number of things throughout the course of this film, including the following...
1. Pam Grier's got a gargantuan rack.
2. Jumping into the sunroof of a speeding car probably isn't the best way to catch a ride.
3. Modeling agencies can sometimes be a front for escort services.
4. Old Caucasian men in positions of power are particularly piggish and skeevy.
5. Someone owns a pair of boxer shorts festooned with giant, red hearts and actually wears them.
6. The darker the meat the sweeter the berry, or so I've heard.
7. A barstool upside the head beats a black belt around the waist every time.
8. Lesbians like Coors Beer.
9. Pam Grier is very talented with her tongue, enough so she can use it to pick up a razor blade left on a nightstand while tied to a bed.
10. Never stand in front of the propeller of a moving plane (especially when an African American woman with a grudge is driving).
11. Frisking Pam Grier for weapons is probably the biggest perk that henchmen ever got..
12. A giant Afro makes a great place to hide a gun.
Director Hill keeps things moving along with lots of action, including some pretty graphic violence, although the worst bits aren't shown (Foxy's defilement at the ranch, Steve's fate) but rather left to the viewer's imagination. There's also a good deal of racial slurs tossed about, primarily by the often overly sadistic, antagonistic elements in the film (all of whom happen to be Caucasian), followed up those issuing said remarks getting their just comeuppance. While Foxy Brown may not be the best in the genre, it's still better than a lot of the features cranked out at the time, particularly due to Hill's capabilities and willingness to get downright nasty, for lack of a better term.
The picture, presented in widescreen (1.85:1), enhanced for 16X9 TVs, looks very clean and the Dolby Digital mono audio comes through clearly. Extras include an audio commentary track with writer/director Jack Hill, an original theatrical trailer, and subtitles in both French and Spanish (no English). It would have been nice if they could have gotten Ms. Grier involved on the commentary, but oh well...
Cookieman108
By the way, there are a couple of boxed DVD sets out there with Pam Grier's films (one's called `Fox in a Box' and the other is called `The Best of Soul Cinema DVD Collection', both released by MGM), so if you're interested in buying this film, you might want to check out the availability on those sets as it might save you some green rather than buying the films individually.
Description of Foxy Brown
Pam Grier (Actor), Antonio Fargas (Actor) | Rated: R | Format: DVD
- # DVD Release Date: January 9, 2001
- # Run Time: 94 minutes
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