Cooley High

Cooley High is a 1975 American film based upon the real high school located on the near north side of Chicago, produced and released by American International Pictures and written by Eric Monte cocreator of Good Times. The film, set in 1964 Chicago, Illinois, stars Glynn Turman and Lawrence HiltonJacobs, and features a soundtrack made up of 1960s Motown hits.

The film tells the story of a momentous few days in the lives of Leroy Preach Jackson Glynn Turman and his best friend Richard Cochise Morris Lawrence HiltonJacobs, two black high school students at Edwin G. Cooley Vocational High School in Chicago, Illinois, during the early 1960s. Preach is an aspiring writer who reads poetry and history books for fun, and secretly composes his own poems, but is disinterested in school and thus does poorly. Cochise is a basketball star who hopes to go to college on an athletic scholarship. The boys and their friends live in a poor urban neighborhood, where Preachs mother works three jobs to support him and his two younger sisters, and Cochise lives with his extended family in a crowded apartment. The handsome and athletic Cochise is popular and sought after by girls, while the skinnier and shorter Preach often gets rejected.One Friday, Preach and Cochise decide to cut class and go to the zoo with their friends Pooter and Tyrone, despite the fact that Preach has missed an entire week of school, much to the chagrin of his history teacher, Mr. Mason Garrett Morris. Afterwards they end up back at their local teen hangout, a diner named Marthas, where their friend Dorothy invites them to a quarter party admission to the party costs a quarter that night. She further informs them that Mr. Mason moved the history test up to next Monday, meaning that the boys will need to study over the weekend, since they must pass the test in order to pass history. Inside the diner, Preachs clandestine gambling game with Stone and Robert in the back of the diner is interrupted by Brenda, a haughty and beautiful girl who is annoyed that they are blocking the entrance to the restroom. Preach is attracted to her but she coldly rejects him and tells Martha he is gambling, causing Martha to throw Preach out at the point of her meat cleaver. Preach bets Cochise a dollar that he, Preach, can get Brenda to sleep with him. Preach and Cochise then make out with t

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