Cooley High (1975)
Directed by Michael Schultz · 107 min · Comedy, Drama, Romance
14.7 TOPICAL score · #5,080 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.
Cooley High (1975, directed by Michael Schultz) has a TOPICAL score of 14.7 - ranked 5,080 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and audience, and lowest on awards. Critics: 85% on Rotten Tomatoes · 6.6/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 7/10 (76 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- Critics85% on Rotten Tomatoes · 6.6/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 7/10 (76 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 4 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read13,853 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis