Foxy Brown

Name: Foxy Brown
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Released: April 5, 1974
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Antonio Fargas, Bob Minor, Harry Holcombe, Juanita Brown, Kathryn Loder

1974

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American International Pictures (AIP) | Release Date: April 5, 1974 | R

Starring: Antonio Fargas, Bob Minor, Harry Holcombe, Juanita Brown, Kathryn Loder, Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Sally Ann Stroud, Sid Haig, Terry Carter

Summary: A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Director: Jack Hill

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Adam Lowes

Unlike some of the other blaxploitation titles from that time, Foxy Brown is more than just a curio piece. That’s partly down to its iconic lead, but it’s also due to a strong feminist attitude which exists within that riotous, eager-to-entertain, exploitation framework. Read full review

Noel Murray

If Foxy Brown falls just short of being peak Grier, though, it’s only because it’s a weaker version of Hill’s Coffy, from the year before. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Where Coffy had an exhilarating sense of fun underlying the mayhem, Foxy Brown is a darker, more mean-spirited picture. Rather than treating Foxy's travails as a setup for the inevitable vengeance, it seems to revel in her degradation. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Grier is an actress able to convey an amazing and unflinching strength, and she reveals the film for the dross it is. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Miss Grier is obviously durable but, unfortunately, is fast becoming a bore despite all the sex, brawls and gore in Foxy Brown. Read full review

Empire Kim Newman

Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby) evidently didn't try very hard on this one. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Even by the gutter-high standards of the genre, Foxy Brown is something of a mess. Jack Hill’s screenplay has peculiar narrative gaps. Read full review

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