Director Michael Schultz’s 1975 American International film Cooley High is one of those films, like Love and Basketball, that seems to be on every “most beloved” black films list.
The period dramedy set, in 1964 Chicago, chronicles the lives of two best high school buddies, Preach (played by Glynn Truman), a serious minded guy with aspirations of becoming a famous writer and his best friend Cochise (played Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), the school basketball hero who’s headed for college and what looks like a promising career.
Together we follow them as the goof off, fall in love, cut class, crash parties, and other shenanigans that most teenagers get involved in, as…
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