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Friday Foster (1975)

Friday Foster poster
Directed by
Arthur Marks
Genre
drama film, blaxploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 57 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Friday Foster is a fashion photographer who gets caught up in a conspiracy involving a wealthy man's death. She uses her wits and street smarts to uncover the truth while fighting off dangerous enemies.

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What happens

Friday Foster is a 1975 American blaxploitation film directed by Arthur Marks and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It is an adaptation of the 1970–74 syndicated newspaper comic strip of the same name, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón. This was Grier's final film with American International Pictures. The tagline on the film's poster is "Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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