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

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Cast:
Glynn E. Turman - Preach
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs - Cochise
Garrett Morris - Mr. Mason
Cynthia Davis - Brenda
Corin Rogers - Pooter
Maurice Leon Havis - Willie
Joseph Carter Wilson - Tyrone
Shermann Smith - Stone
Norman Gibson - Robert
Maurice Marshall - Damon
Steven Williams - Jimmy Lee
Jackie Taylor - Johnny Mae
Christine Jones - Sandra
Lynn Caridine - Dorothy

Production:
Michael Schultz - Director
Steve Krantz - Producer
Freddie Perren - Composer
Christopher Holmes - Editor
Eric Monte - Screen Writer
William Fosser - Art Director
Paul Von Brack - Cinematographer
Samuel Z. Arkoff - Executive Producer
Frank Beetson - First Assistant Director

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