Cooley High (1975)

Directors

Michael Schultz

Cast

Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Cynthia Davis, Sherman Smith, Norman Gibson, Garrett Morris

The story

In 1964 Chicago, Leroy "Preach" Jackson and his best friend, Richard "Cochise" Morris, are in the final weeks of their senior year at Cooley Vocational High School in the Near North Side. They sneak out of class one Friday and spend the day at Lincoln Park Zoo with two friends, Pooter and Willie. After catching the L train back to school, the gang goes to Martha's, a soul food hangout, where Preach falls in love with classmate Brenda while shooting craps with neighborhood hoodlums Stone and Robert.

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