Taglines: A chick with drive who don’t take no jive!
Foxy Brown movie storyline. Ordering food at a taco stand late a night, local Los Angeles drug dealer Link Brown (Antonio Fargas) eyes two thugs, Eddie (Tony Giorgio) and Bunyon (Fred Lerner), who have followed him. Two police officers arrive and place food orders. At a nearby payphone, Link calls his sister, Foxy Brown (Pam Grier), to pick him up, telling her that the two thugs will attack him once the police officers leave.
At her home, Foxy gets out of bed and changes clothes, hiding a gun inside her brassiere. Meanwhile, Link tries to engage the policemen in conversation, but they drive away, leaving him alone with Eddie and Bunyon. As the thugs close in on Link, Foxy hits them with her car, and Link jumps on the vehicle, sliding inside through the sunroof.
Returning home with Link, Foxy demands an explanation. Link confesses to owing a loan shark $20,000 that he lost betting on numbers but argues that his petty crimes do not compare to her missing boyfriend’s dishonorable work as a police informer. Link says he would have money if he could only go back to dealing cocaine. Hoping to keep her brother out of trouble, Foxy allows him to stay at her house. Meanwhile at Katherine Wall’s (Kathryn Loder) office, Steve Elias (Peter Brown) chastises Eddie and Bunyon for losing Link.
One day, Foxy delivers flowers to her boyfriend, Dalton Ford (Terry Carter), at the hospital. Foxy watches as his doctor removes the gauze covering his face, which has been altered so that he can take on the new identity of “Michael Anderson,” after having worked undercover for the Bureau of Narcotics for two years. Michael’s boss, Adams (Ed Knight), allows him to leave the hospital for the day, supplying him with a new birth certificate and driver’s license before he goes.
That afternoon, Foxy and Michael take a walk and she spots her friend, Oscar (Bob Minor), on the street. They watch as Oscar and a cohort corner a drug dealer, beat him, and shove him into the back of a car. Foxy introduces Michael to her friend, and Oscar explains that he’s part of a “neighborhood committee” working to expel drug dealers from the area. Because the dealers often bribe policeman for protection, the neighborhood committee must enforce their own form of vigilante justice.
Link calls his girlfriend, Deb (Sally Ann Stroud), and she informs him that Elias’s thugs came by the apartment and threatened her earlier that day. Link worries about the $20,000 he needs to pay them back but hangs up when his sister returns with Michael. After Foxy introduces the men, Link stares at Michael suspiciously and leaves the house. Foxy and Michael make love before he returns to the hospital where he must stay one more night.
Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character, described by one character as “a whole lot of woman”, who showcases unrelenting sexiness while battling the film’s villains.[2] The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Truck Turner. The film uses Afrocentric references in clothing and hair. Grier starred in six blaxploitation films for American International Pictures.
Foxy Brown (1974)
Directed by: Jack Hill
Starring: Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe, Juanita Brown, Judith Cassmore, Fred Lerner, Tony Giorgio, Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan, Sally Ann Stroud
Screenplay by: Jack Hill
Cinematography by: Brick Marquard
Film Editing by: Chuck McClelland
Set Decoration by: Charles B. Pierce
Art Direction by: Kirk Axtell
Music by: Willie Hutch
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: American International Pictures
Release Date: April 5, 1974
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