on the heels of the well received and beloved coming of age film classic  and concerning the lives of teenagers as they headed into adulthood and george lucas american graffiti and we have cooley high. an adaptation of sorts by one eric monte and co creator of the popular 1970 cbs sitcom good times. cooley high was and and is and viewed as a black version of american graffiti. instead of central california  and as in american graffiti and we have the black slum of chicago cabrini green as the backdrop for the story here. instead of america in 1962 cooley high is situated in 1964. the movie stars welcome back kotter  and lawrence hilton jacobs and glynn turman as the movie main protagonists and its main characters. it has garrett morris playing the principal who tries to keep jacobs and turman characters and named coceise and preach and out of trouble a great deal of the time. you know and i would like to say that cooley high is a worthy comparison piece to american graffiti or that it is a great film on its own but i can not. the problem lies with the fact that the producers of the film couldn not or do not hide the sad underside of black life in america. having the film in the cabrini green part of chicago doesn not help things. neither does the crass gross attempts at humor here. when coceise is looking for a letter of intent from a college he finds his little brother has thrown down a toilet. when the gang visits the chicago zoo and one of the gang named pooter and has manure thrown on him by an ape. when the turman character and preach and is being chased by two hoodlums in the school hangout(a dirty and depressing place to eat food in much less meet people at) and he opens the door of the girls bathroom while a girl is relieving herself as he escapes through the window of the same bathroom. the high school and the homes of the characters and the bathrooms and just about everywhere in the film displays the unfortunate look of urban decay and poverty. if that wasn not enough there was the rough display of humor in the film. the use of violence and profanity in the film. cooley high may be an coming of age film  and but it is a hard and rough coming of age film with little or none of the wit and liking of the use of nostalgia that made people like and appreciate american graffiti so much. motown records had a hand in making the film. the company music was part of the film soundtrack. but even here you get a sense of same old same old as one has heard these songs before a million times over. not that they weren not great songs within themselves but black music and of that time period was more than just motown. especially in chicago. the song nearing the end of the movie and by the spinners g. c. cameron and was not all that impressive. there have been better motown ballads that have been done and by better motown artists than cameron without question. the last part of the film showing where the characters went to pay homage to the film cooley high aimed to be  and american graffiti. it shows that preach and an intelligent but underachieving student went to hollywood and became a successful television writer. eric monte may have patterned himself as turman character. the last shot of film show preach running away from coceise funeral  and held on a dark rainy afternoon and and all the bleakness that cooley high came to represent. eric monte  and through preach and that final scene and had one little lesson for all of us when watching cooley high and for the love of the past. don not look back. 
on the heels of the well received and beloved coming of age film classic  and concerning the lives of teenagers as they headed into adulthood and george lucas american graffiti and we have cooley high. an adaptation of sorts by one eric monte and co creator of the popular 1970 cbs sitcom good times. cooley high was and and is and viewed as a black version of american graffiti. instead of central california  and as in american graffiti and we have the black slum of chicago cabrini green as the backdrop for the story here. instead of america in 1962 cooley high is situated in 1964. the movie stars welcome back kotter  and lawrence hilton jacobs and glynn turman as the movie main protagonists and its main characters. it has garrett morris playing the principal who tries to keep jacobs and turman characters and named coceise and preach and out of trouble a great deal of the time. you know and i would like to say that cooley high is a worthy comparison piece to american graffiti or that it is a great film on its own but i can not. the problem lies with the fact that the producers of the film couldn not or do not hide the sad underside of black life in america. having the film in the cabrini green part of chicago doesn not help things. neither does the crass gross attempts at humor here. when coceise is looking for a letter of intent from a college he finds his little brother has thrown down a toilet. when the gang visits the chicago zoo and one of the gang named pooter and has manure thrown on him by an ape. when the turman character and preach and is being chased by two hoodlums in the school hangout(a dirty and depressing place to eat food in much less meet people at) and he opens the door of the girls bathroom while a girl is relieving herself as he escapes through the window of the same bathroom. the high school and the homes of the characters and the bathrooms and just about everywhere in the film displays the unfortunate look of urban decay and poverty. if that wasn not enough there was the rough display of humor in the film. the use of violence and profanity in the film. cooley high may be an coming of age film  and but it is a hard and rough coming of age film with little or none of the wit and liking of the use of nostalgia that made people like and appreciate american graffiti so much. motown records had a hand in making the film. the company music was part of the film soundtrack. but even here you get a sense of same old same old as one has heard these songs before a million times over. not that they weren not great songs within themselves but black music and of that time period was more than just motown. especially in chicago. the song nearing the end of the movie and by the spinners g. c. cameron and was not all that impressive. there have been better motown ballads that have been done and by better motown artists than cameron without question. the last part of the film showing where the characters went to pay homage to the film cooley high aimed to be  and american graffiti. it shows that preach and an intelligent but underachieving student went to hollywood and became a successful television writer. eric monte may have patterned himself as turman character. the last shot of film show preach running away from coceise funeral  and held on a dark rainy afternoon and and all the bleakness that cooley high came to represent. eric monte  and through preach and that final scene and had one little lesson for all of us when watching cooley high and for the love of the past. don not look back. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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