Foxy Brown
Foxy Brown is a 1974 film from the USA, directed by Jack Hill, running 87 minutes. reelscum files it under blaxploitation.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Director
- Jack Hill
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (25/100)
- Also known as
- Burn, Coffy, Burn!
- Banned in
- UK
Defined in the glossary: Blaxploitation
An unlikely Section 3 entry, the Pam Grier revenge picture caught up in the seizure list.
Coffy again, louder and worse written. Grier is still magnetic.
Coffy again, louder and less coherent, and still a showcase for Pam Grier at the height of her stardom. Out for revenge after her man is murdered, Foxy infiltrates a vice ring, and the film piles on incident with less control than Coffy but more sheer attitude.
Jack Hill originally conceived it as a Coffy sequel, and it shows in the recycled beats, but Grier is magnetic and the film has a rougher, angrier energy. The vigilante finale is uncompromising.
Not the best Grier vehicle, but maybe the most iconic.
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Written about
- Blaxploitation, 1971 to 1975
Melvin Van Peebles caught gonorrhea on his own set, filed a workers' comp claim, and bought more film stock with the settlement. Four years later the studios had mined the audience out and moved on.
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Pam Grier's arrival. Jack Hill knows exactly what he has.
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