Foxy Brown

Plot synopsis:
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 give her a shot of heroin and then send her to a farm which is actually a drug manufacturing plant, with two of Miss Kathryn's henchmen. after she wakes from her sleep she tries to escape her captors but is caught by one of the henchmen with a whip and dragged back to the bedroom where he proceeds to tie her to the bed. then Kathryn's second goon comes and gives foxy another shot of heroin, the dealer begins to eye foxy quoting "I'm beginning to get that ole feeling" where he massages and fondles her breasts before he rips off her bra. tied up and defenseless with her breasts exposed the dealer rapes her and leaves her tied but using her quick thinking she uses a razor to get free and escape her captors by setting the farm on fire. Ms Kathryn orders her boyfriend to kill her where he proceeds by scaring info out of her brother but to no avail he then kills him and his girlfriend foxy asks her black panther bros for help where they take Steve and cut off his genitals foxy comes to the house of ms Kathryn and shows her the jar containing Steve's genitals and she kills two of the guards and shoot's Kathryn in the arm. foxy says that death is too easy her and wants her to suffer the way that she made her suffer.

Tags: suspenseful, cruelty, neo noir, realism, violence, cult, sadist, tragedy, revenge, blaxploitation

Review:
Let's just see how Halle does.One thing more: I'm not a Tarantino fan, but this film provided a lot of insight into a) Why he would want to make Jackie Brown, and b) a lot of the form and conventions (including the rape) that he followed in Kill Bill.
Writer and director of "Coffy", Jack Hill, had finished a script for a sequel when the studio decided at the last minute that it didn't want to film a sequel to "Coffy."  Re-working his script, Hill gave birth to what could arguably the seminal female blaxploitation film: "Foxy Brown."Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) is a strong woman striving for a better world.
In the context of the film, the conceit is appropriate, but it can lead to some viewers being upset or failing to take into account the politics of the time that would lead to such a depiction and dismissing the film out of hand.Despite these flaws, "Foxy Brown" is definitely a film to watch not just for historical value, but for the remarkable performance of Pam Grier, an actress just as strong and beautiful today as she was in 1974.
Beyond the blaxploitation label, Foxy Brown is a solid adventure film, that remains timely to this day.
Foxy Brown, like Grier's previous character Coffy, is a strong-willed and able woman, who wants justice in her community, and personal life.
While it is not easily stated, Foxy Brown and so many of the blaxploitation movies were originally produced so that Hollywood could capitalize on the vibe of the black community.
The clothes, the characters, and especially the talk (dig this, jive that) is so '70's it seems to be a parody.What's bad about this film is the excessive violence (Foxy's drugging and raping and her gruesome revenge), but maybe it's necessary in order to have a film like this.
Foxy Brown is one of Pam Grier's best blaxploitation movies (topped only by Coffy).
From the James Bondish opening sequence of Pam dancing to the "Foxy Brown" theme song, to Antonio Fargas ("That's my sister...and she's a whole lotta woman!") to the spectacular ending which I will not spoil, this is a must see for any a) Pam Grier fan b)blaxploitation fan c)anybody who wants to see a strong female character beat the crap out of her opponents.
After the huge success of Coffy (1973), American International Pictures wanted more blaxploitation, namely in the form of Pam Grier's sexy, female empowered ass-kicker.
Yet Coffy and Foxy Brown are arguably as popular and as iconic as each other - Foxy maybe even more so - and this is mainly due to Foxy Brown being a pretty decent film, despite familiar plotting and genre tropes.When her boyfriend is gunned down by a bunch of gangsters, Foxy Brown goes undercover to infiltrate a prostitute ring posing as a modelling agency.
Her dead-beat brother Link (the amazing Antonio Fargas) tells Foxy that the group - led by strange and kinky couple Steve (Peter Brown) and Miss Katherine (Kathryn Loder) - are the people responsible.
Violence, drugs and explosions soon follow as Foxy pursues her thirst for vengeance, and helps fellow black woman Claudia (Juanita Brown) to escape a life on the game,It's a revenge premise seen a thousand times before, but Foxy Brown is often a blast.
Okay, because of the thin plot and the low budget "Foxy Brown" was made of the film seems more to be the episode of a TV series than a production for the theatres, but its amazing main actress Pam Grier will blow you away!
They are about women, and the love and tragedies they go through; also about the bad-a** women like our Foxy Brown.Well anyway, this film starts with a street hustler named Link Brown, cringing in a bar full of police officers, he's trying to wait out a bunch of thugs who want to beat him for holding out on a loan from losses incurred from street gambling schemes.
While this "Foxy Brown" of 1974, which is very similar in its premise, is not quite as cool as "Coffy" it is yet another immensely entertaining and bad-ass blaxploitation classic.
It is funny how director Jack Hill often repeated a successful idea - he made two WIP (Women In Prison) flicks, "The Big Doll House" (1971) and "The Big Bird Cage" (1972), both starring Grier, and then went on to make two 'Female Avenger' themed Blaxploitation flicks, also both starring Grier, "Coffy" (1973) and "Foxy Brown" (1974).
Storywise, "Foxy Brown" is quite near to what "Coffy" was, a film about a black beauty with style, Foxy Brown (Pam Grier), who is taking on ruthless mobsters in order to take bloody revenge for a loved one...
Out of all the blaxploitation films I've seen so far, however, "Coffy" is my favorite, and while "Foxy Brown" is certainly inferior, it is nonetheless great fun and a must-see for blaxploitation lovers.
The supporting cast includes the great Sid Haig, who was in plenty of films with Grier around the time, in a small role.
The fabulous, drop-dead gorgeous Pam Grier, played Foxy Brown with a seething conviction.
And she makes sure that the bad-guys shed their share, while she goes about the task of settling the score.Pam Grier made Foxy's rage and obsession with revenge, seem palpable.
Pam Grier's stunning good looks, and her athletic grace, made her a perfect choice to play Foxy Brown.
No other black female actress, was as compelling on-screen as Pam Grier was in the 70s.The cool funkiness of 70s Blaxploitation cinema, is certainly in evidence in Foxy Brown.
If you're looking for a fat, juicy slice of 70s Blaxploitation, then Foxy Brown is just the movie for you..
In 'Foxy Brown' things just come too easy for Grier's character, and she is much closer to Roundtree's John Shaft or even Tamara Dobson's Cleopatra Jones.
However Grier with Hill is still better than her subsequent movies in this genre like say 'Sheba, Baby' or 'Friday Foster', so I can't say it's a complete waste of time.
Grier really dominates 'Foxy Brown' but the much-loved Antonio Fargas ('Shaft', 'Cleopatra Jones', but best known as Huggy Bear on TV's 'Starsky And Hutch') plays her shifty coke-dealing brother, Katheryn Loder (who some might remember from Hill's earlier 'The Big Doll House') is great as a sadistic Madame, and Sid Haig has a nice bit as a horny pilot.
I really wish Jack Hill would make movies again, and I'd love to see him team up once more with Pam Grier and Sid Haig, because I think they have some unfinished business and the results could really be something special..
So I decided to give 1974's black flick "Foxy Brown" a watch since it featured the sexy Pam Grier(and she certainly doesn't let a viewer down with her breast scenes!) and the film though it seems a little quick does entertain with drama, action, and revenge all topped off with plenty of sex!
The story is simple set in L.A. in the world of drugs, and scandal involving the mob and Pam Grier is one sexy lady who has a government agent boyfriend murdered and this now causes her to go to any means to find the truth so guess what the Grier character goes undercover as a high class prostitute at a model agency that's a cover for sex and drug trafficking in favor for bribes to bring the killer or killers to justice.
Overall this is a fun feel good film that entertains it will seek to any means for justice and Pam Grier's work is memorable as she was too an eye candy treat!.
A voluptuous black woman (Pam Grier) takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.I love Jack Hill.
Coffy, Superfly, and now Foxy Brown, all great movies in a similar way.
After seeing Jackie Brown and loving it, I decided to see what other films Pam Grier had done in the past.
Pam Grier delivers a knockout performance as Foxy Brown, whose federal agent boyfriend is gunned down, and who sets out to fight for revenge and justice where the System has failed her.
Blaxploitation hooked me since early ninities when l'd watched Roundtree's "Shaft" since then l love this kind of movie,it's totally a different look inside of Black's world and almost all them were made in early seventies where this social phenomenon takes place,After a huge success of Coffy who Pam Grier sparkled,they came with a new repackaged as Foxy Brown,simply delightful to watch this new genre,an older Peter Brown gave me good memories when was acting in Laredo series!!!Resume:First watch: 2009 / How many: 2 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7.
You can see what Pam Grier looked like as a younger actress since most people have seen her in Quentin Tarantino's 1990's film Foxy Brown which isn't a remake of this one but is a separate entity.
I watched Pam in a handful of "Women in Prison" movies and, of course, in Quentin Tarantino's homage "Jackie Brown", but THIS is the real stuff that made her an immortal cult siren!
Okay, "Foxy Brown" is thin-plotted and often exaggeratedly gratuitous, but notwithstanding it's an incredibly fun movie to watch and Mrs. Grier simply represents total coolness.
Best of all it features Pam Grier, the undisputed queen of the genre.The movie features Antonio Fargas as Foxy's brother, and he has some fabulous lines.
I need these things in my life, and films like Foxy Brown do the trick.Damn, Pam's SUPER-BAD!
This is all really due to the quite badly written- and simplistic story.It's a movie that seems to have all of the right ingredients; Sex, violence, nudity and Pam Grier is a whole lot of woman, as even her brother says in this.
Sure, it provides the movie with plenty of good and fun moments but overall the movie would had benefited more from a far more consistent and also more original script.Still a thing that makes this movie special and somewhat above average is the presence of Pam Grier in this.
When her undercover cop boyfriend is murdered, bombshell Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) is out for revenge.
Cool theme song, nice nudity, and lots of violence like most of the great blaxploitation movies.
I'm not sure whether this is supposed to be funny or it's a serious attempt at telling a story, but it fails at both.One thing this movie never fails in trying to do is have Pam Grier enter each scene with different clothes for male viewers to ogle her in.
So Hill pumped out this little quickie of an exploitation flick that was meant to be a sequel to Coffy, but then got lopped off due to continuity, among other things, even though a lot of the plot points back to many things in the original Hill/Grier collaboration (i.e. boyfriend getting knocked off, Grier playing the perpetual bad-ass, surrounded by corruption she must rid, etc).
There's some good character actor work by Antonio Fargas as the sort of flunkie Link, brother of Foxy's, and by the very cold Katherine, played by Kathryn Loder (and, true to the 'black-exploitation' fold all of the villains are white).
The blaxploitation genre continued with Jack Hill's "Foxy Brown", starring Pam Grier as a woman out for revenge.
"Mars Attacks!" was the first movie in which I saw Pam Grier, but I didn't learn her name until I saw "Jackie Brown" the following year.
This is among the best that entertainment has to offer.I wonder if Pam Grier will ever play a third character with the last name Brown..
Director Jack Hill's Foxy Brown was originally intended as a sequel to his cult classic Coffy (1973), which also starred voluptuous black babe Pam Grier in serious revenge mode.
Which film you prefer will depend entirely on what you expect most from the blaxploitation genre—gritty violence or shameless fun—with Foxy Brown leaning towards the lighter side of things, while Coffy is a much rougher affair.
Since I like my blaxploitation films to have a more raw, exploitative edge, I rate Coffy higher than Foxy, but that's not to say I didn't have a good time with this funky follow-up.The film opens as Foxy (Grier) is about to start a new life with her supposedly dead undercover cop boyfriend Dalton (Terry Carter), who has just undergone face-change surgery to complete his new identity as Michael Anderson.
She, Foxy Brown (played by Pam Grier), then sets out to avenge his death.Interesting and action-packed but, if you've already seen Coffy, the previous Jack Hill-Pam Grier collaboration (Hill being the writer and director), it seems largely second-hand.
It all just feels like Coffy Lite.However, still entertaining and Pam Grier, as before, puts in a great performance in the lead role..
Exploitation king Jack Hill made FOXY BROWN as a follow-up to COFFY, another blaxploitation epic starring Pam Grier.
Pam Grier kicks into high gear playing a female avenger, out to take vengeance on the various hoods, thieves, murderers, and rapists who stand in her way, and the film becomes a fantastic slice of exploitation entertainment.What follows is an odyssey of ultra-violence featuring some fantastic and gratuitously gory effects sequences.
Good Fun. Foxy Brown (1974) *** (out of 4) Enjoyable, over the top blaxploitation classic about Foxy Brown (Pam Grier), a woman who seeks revenge on the evil white people who killed her fiancé.
One of the better blaxploitation films with Pam Grier kicking butt and looking o so fine as she does it.
Lots of people die.Also features Sid Haig, who is familiar not only in director Jack Hill's other films like Coffy and Spider Baby, again, with Grier in Tarantino's Jackie Brown, and also in Rob Zombie's films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects..
great movie for the time it was movie display of how blacks always thought they had to stay one step ahead of the man unfortunately the man always got his in the end but still manages to slip away.this movies show some great styles of the era and those who were of the same age of the character will always fill a sense of regaining a youth of times past but brought back today,you will really enjoy this movie even though you have already seen it see it again and drift away to that time i know i always like to watch it again ans again.look for the other Pam Grier movies they all seem to have her playing the heroine so if you don't mind a woman taking charge this is the movie for you.
Foxy Brown is a pretty good film and one of the better crime films from the 70's I've seen.
Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) goes after some vicious drug dealers after they kill her boyfriend.
"Foxy Brown" is probably as trashy and entertaining as they get, and the best thing about this movie, hands down, is the pitch-perfect casting of Pam Grier in the title role.
Undoubtedly the most iconic and famous movie of the genre Blaxploitation.Pam Grier gives life to this urban Amazon that is Foxy Brown with all the presence, energy and charisma that she needs to turn him into an already mythical character in the cinema.The film has that charming and nostalgic seventies aesthetic dominated by flared trousers and afro hair, so characteristic of the genre and the era and an appropriate soundtrack by Willie Hutch.It is also remarkable its good photography and is well set, although it is not as marginal and dark as other productions of the genre.
While arguably Pam Grier's best known work from the period when she owned the Blaxploitation genre, Foxy Brown is unfortunately the least satisfying offering from that chapter of her filmography.
If that sounds like a meager recommendation, it is, but if you're a fan of Blaxploitation films or Pam Grier, you already know you're going to see this.
Foxy Brown Low level 70s blaxploitation- starring Pam Grier as the title character- she is lovely- but this flick does not age well- the fight scenes are ludicrous and the plot extreme- her brother fingers her bf to the mob- she becomes a hooker- what?This movie is a hoot with a decent Willie Hutch soundtrack and cameos by Sid Haig and Antonio Fargas.If you looking for some 70s action with a strong female lead than this will be a decent 90 minute ride.On the audio commentary the director said that he wants to try his hand at romantic comedy- you know I think a catfight in a lesbian bar might of helped Wedding Date.
Writer & director Jack Hill's classic Blaxploitation thriller "Foxy Brown" stars Pam Grier as a soul sister who gets what she wants after the villains gun down her boyfriend.
"Foxy Brown" was the last of the four films that director Jack Hill and Grier worked together on; the other films were "The Big Doll House," "The Big Bird Cage," and "Coffy." Not for the squeamish!.
Desperately needing help he calls his sister "Foxy Brown" (Pam Grier) to rescue him from the two goons.
However, like many blaxploitation films during this time the dialogue and fashions cause this movie to seem quite dated.
While it was not as exciting as Pam Grier's prior film, COFFY, it was a little better aesthetically--with less of the cheesy violence (no exploding heads in this one) , but it still packs a mean punch and it's nice to see Grier's acting has improved.Like COFFY, FOXY BROWN is about a one-woman demolition team out to destroy a drug syndicate.
The PC crowd would go nuts if such a movie were released in 2005.Foxy Brown is the story of a woman looking for revenge after her boyfriend is gunned down in front of her house.
She's not going to let anyone, not even her brother, stand in the way of her mission.Foxy Brown works primarily because of two key ingredients - Pam Grier and Jack Hill.