Foxy Brown (film)
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Movie Poster for Foxy Brown
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| Directed by | Jack Hill |
| Produced by | Buzz Feitshans |
| Written by | Jack Hill |
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Pam Grier Antonio Fargas Peter Brown Terry Carter |
| Music by | Willie Hutch |
| Cinematography | Brick Marquard |
| Edited by | Chuck McClelland |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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94 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $2,460,000 |
Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character, described by one character as "a whole lot of woman" who showcases unrelenting sexiness while battling the villains. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Truck Turner. The film uses Afro-centric references in clothing and hair and touches on issues relatable to the black women of the 1970s, and is even still relatable today. Pam Grier starred in six blaxploitation films for American International Pictures.
While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.
Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend is shot down by members of a drug syndicate at her doorstep. She links her boyfriend's murderers to a "modeling agency" run by Steve Elias (Peter Brown) and Miss Kathryn (Kathryn Loder) that services local judges, congressmen, and police in the area. Foxy decides to pose as a prostitute to infiltrate the company, and helps save a fellow black woman from a life of drugs and sexual exploitation and reunites her with her husband and child. Not long after she infiltrates the company, her relation to her late-boyfriend and Link Brown, her brother who ratted him out, is exposed and she is caught before she can escape. After an exchange of words and heated death threats, Miss Kathryn decides to keep her alive in hopes of her being worth some monetary value in the sex-slave trade. They send her to a farm, which is actually a drug manufacturing plant, with two of Miss Kathryn's henchmen. She is raped, drugged, and tied to a bed for a number of days, and attempts to escape a number of times all to no avail. Her final attempt succeeds as she lights her two captors on fire and escapes. With her brother killed and feeling outmatched, Foxy enlists the help of a Black panther-inspired neighborhood group loaded with guns and ammunition to help her ambush a drug deal and kill the operation. She uses her sexy appeal to track down the pilot she knows was supposed to be delivering the next package of drugs in Mexico to the drug syndicate and shoots most of the members. However, Foxy orders the boys to sever Steve's, Miss Kathryn's boyfriend, genitals and brings them to Miss Kathryn in a jar in an attempt to make her feel how she felt when she lost Michael. Miss Kathryn attempts to stab her, but Foxy shoots her in the shoulder. Before leaving Foxy told her she wanted her to suffer rather than killing her.
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