Friday Foster (film)
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| Directed by | Arthur Marks |
| Produced by | Arthur Marks |
| Written by | Arthur Marks Orville H. Hampton |
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Pam Grier Carl Weathers Eartha Kitt Paul Benjamin Yaphet Kotto |
| Music by | Buddy Baker |
| Cinematography | Harry J. May |
| Edited by | Stanley Frazen |
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American International Pictures Orion Pictures Corporation |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Friday Foster is a 1975 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Arthur Marks and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It was an adaptation of the 1970-74 eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón and Gray Morrow. This was Grier's final film with American International Pictures. The tagline on the film's poster is "Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!"
Friday Foster (Grier) is an ex-magazine model turned magazine photographer who refuses to heed her boss's admonitions against becoming involved in the stories to which she is assigned. After witnessing an assassination attempt on the nation's wealthiest African American Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala) and then seeing her best friend Cloris Boston (Miles) murdered, Friday finds herself targeted for death. She teams up with private detective Colt Hawkins (Kotto) to investigate, and soon the two are hot on the trail of a plot to eliminate the country's African-American political leadership.
In addition to the standard blaxploitation plot elements, the film also dealt with the themes of the power and importance of African American political unity and the potential threat thereto posed not only by the perceived white power structure, but also by those African-Americans willing to betray that goal in search of reward from that establishment.
The Black Power movement was started in the 1960s by a group of young black activist students who were once a part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). They aimed to uplift the black community and end racism through the promotion of Black power. Its leader, Stokley Carmichael, described black power, "Politically, black power means what it has always meant to SNCC: the coming-together of black people to elect representatives and to force those representatives to speak to their needs." The movie reflects a lot of the ideologies of and issues exposed by the Black Power Movement—Black unity, self-determination and the threat of systemic oppression.
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