Friday Foster

1975

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 2907 2.9K

blaxploitation airport hitman photographer pimp based on comic

Plot summary

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Director

Arthur Marks Photo
Arthur Marks

Top cast

Tierre Turner Photo
Tierre Turner as Cleve
Ed Cambridge Photo
Ed Cambridge as Lt. Jake Wayne
Ted Lange Photo
Ted Lange as Fancy Dexter
Pam Grier Photo
Pam Grier as Friday Foster
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
704.77 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 3
1.25 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bart-117 7 / 10

Solid Pam Grier

Pam Grier is back in action in the big screen adaptation of 'Friday Foster'. Friday Foster debuted in January 1970 as the first comic strip to star a black woman. It was syndicated and featured soap operatic story lines drawn in a realistic style, similar to Mary Worth, and starred an ex- model turned photojournalist somewhat like Diahann Carol.I think a lot of blaxploitation fans have a hard time getting their heads around this movie because it's a different role for Pam Grier than the gritty asskicker she played so well in movies like Coffy. Nonetheless, this film gives Pam an opportunity to show range as an actress. I think Pam Grier is one of the most beautiful actresses in the history of film with real star charisma. It's good to see her getting credit.Although it has the elements of classic blaxploitation - car chases, shootouts - Friday Foster is fun, light hearted comic strip of a film. Definitely see it.
Reviewed by tavm 6 / 10

Pam Grier's final AIP movie Friday Foster got plenty of smiles from me

What I'm reviewing now was the very last movie Pam Grier made for American International Pictures. She plays the title character as a photographer for a magazine who's on assignment to shoot the arrival of the "black Howard Hughes" Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala). Accompanying her on some of her assignments other than the one I mentioned above is private detective Colt Hawkins (Yaphet Kotto). I'll stop there and just say how fun I found the whole thing and why not with a cast that includes Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers, Jim Backus, Ted Lange without his mustache that he became famous for when he was cast in "The Love Boat" a few years later, a pre-Apollo Creed Carl Weathers, and Godfrey Cambridge several months before his untimely death. I can't admit that everything that happened made sense but I found myself smiling if not always laughing the whole time I was watching. So on that note, Friday Foster is well worth a look.
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