Movie

Cooley High (1975)

107 min

• Comedy
• Drama
• Romance

Director

Michael Schultz

Released

June 25, 1975

Synopsis

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.

Cast

• Glynn Turman
• Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
• Garrett Morris
• Cynthia Davis
• Corin Rogers
• Maurice Leon Havis
• Joseph Carter Wilson
• Sherman Smith
• Norman Gibson
• Maurice Marshall
• Steven Williams
• Robert Townsend

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