Pam Grier in FOXY BROWN – Screens Sunday at The Missouri History Museum

“You pink-ass corrupt honky judge, take your little wet noodle outta here and if you see a man anywhere send him in because I do need a MAN!”

FOXY BROWN screens at the Missouri History Museum Sunday, October 11^th at 5:00pm as part of the St. Louis Black Film Festival ‘s A SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES. Admission is $5

For a complete rundown of all of the A SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES screenings, go HERE

St. Louis Black Film Festival presents A SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES. The 3-day film fest takes place at Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112) October 9th through the 11th and will feature the films of black stars Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll and Juanita Moore.

AARP members may attend each movie showing free of charge (One free entry per membership card) when they show their AARP membership card at the entrance. Visit AARP-St. Louis volunteers at our table at the St. Louis Classic Black Film Festival before each screening to learn more about what AARP is doing in the St. Louis region.

If you dig Blaxsploitation films the way I do, FOXY BROWN will not disappoint. It’s a wild story of sex, drugs, vengeance and adventure. Best of all it features my favorite actress Pam Grier, the undisputed queen of the genre – busty, tough, and sweet (well, mostly just busty and tough) – in probably her most iconic role. FOXY BROWN is one of the best movies ever made and do not miss your chance to see it on the big screen.

When a pusher by the name of “Link Brown” (Antonio Fargas) loses half a kilo of of cocaine worth about $20,000, his suppliers become irate and send two thugs to work him over. Desperately needing help he calls his sister “Foxy Brown” (Pam Grier) to rescue him from the two goons. She manages to get to him before they can grab him and puts him up at her place for a few days completely unaware of the exact nature of his predicament. In addition to that, her boyfriend “Michael Anderson” (Terry Carter) is an undercover cop who has just undergone a face-lift and assumed a new identity because the same suppliers have a contract out on his head. Things begin to take a turn for the worse and Foxy Brown suddenly has a score or two to settle with some major league drug dealers.

Like many blaxploitation films during this time the dialogue and fashions cause FOXY BROWN to seem dated, but in a good way! FOXY BROWN was actually written and shot to be a sequel to director Jack Hill’s previous film, COFFY where Grier played a nurse with a bad attitude and a penchant for taking her aggression out on mother**kers who wronged her. For some reason, the studio forced Hill to make Foxy Brown stand-alone at the last minute, changing… well, nothing really.

The opening credits to FOXY BROWN are badass, like a funked-out version of a Bond intro with Foxy dancing around in front of multi-colored backgrounds, all the while rocking her outfits from the film. The title sequence employ almost every trick in the title design book, from image rotoscoping and solarization to multi-layered optical animation and colorization.

One of my favorite scenes in FOXY BROWN has to do with one of Foxy’s friends, who, though she is supposed to be laying low (people need to “lay low” often in Foxy’s world), wanders into a lesbian bar and Foxy has to get her out. This lesbian bar needs to be seen to be believed. All of the women dress like teamsters, only more macho. And in a wonderful endorsement of equal rights, these female bar patrons are just as violent, rude, and prone to fight over nothing as any beer-belching men.

Trust me – don’t miss FOXY BROWN when it screens at the Missouri History Museum Sunday, October 11^th at 5:00pm

The St. Louis Classic Black Film Festival audiences are a mix of African-American, culturally diverse, sophisticated, film lovers and the SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES will be a great way to celebrate the careers of these talented women, especially Pam Grier!

A Facebook invite for the SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES event can be found HERE

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