When Foxy Brown’s undercover-agent boyfriend is gunned down on the orders of evil drug kingpins, she stops at nothing to exact a thrillingly brutal revenge. This is one of the all-time great Blaxploitation films, pulling out all the stops at a time long before anyone had thought of political correctness.
After linking her boyfriend's murder to a so-called "modeling agency", Foxy poses as a prostitute to infiltrate the company, saving fellow black women from a life of drugs and sexual exploitation in the process.
Pam Grier was given the role of a lifetime as the street-smart yet intensely sexy Foxy, modeling a stupendously varied range of Seventies threads while righteously kicking villainous white butt at every opportunity.
With an incredible supporting cast, a suitably funkadelic soundtrack and just the right balance of sex and violence, Foxy Brown is still, undisputedly, the meanest chick in town.
Pam Grier's role as bad ass bitch Foxy Brown returns to the screen in HD for the first time thanks to Arrow Video. Taking on one of the biggest titles in blaxsploitation Arrow takes Foxy Brown, brushes off the dirt, brightens up the smut and sugar coats the action in this new AVC 1080p transfer. It's a triumph for Arrow once again as they take retro cult titles and turn them into HD jewels that sparkle and shine throughout.
Pam Grier has never looked so stunning and thanks to Arrow and Blu-ray we've now got a definitive version of the film, just take a look at the trailer above to see the work they've done!
As for the film, Foxy Brown may be a great title but as a first time viewer in 2013, it's not nearly as shocking as I thought it would be. Sex, Drugs and violence that's the foundation of Blaxploitation and Jack Hill as writer and director isn't afraid to lay it all on the line.
Pam Grier bares all for the audience, the sass, the action and the tits just to get the revenge she requires to bring the film to a close. It's not every day that your boyfriend gets gunned down in front of you but then again how many people would hang out with a dirty rotten, snitch?!?!
It's not just Pam Grier that makes Foxy Brown unparalleled 70's fun, it's the likes of Peter Brown and Kathryn Loder who take weird and kooky evil to the next level! With a legitimate business as a front and a real business in prostitution and drug smuggling, these two make Wesley Snipes tax avoidance look positively minor.
Foxy Brown is a great introduction to the grindhouse-esque world of Blaxploitation and as always Pam Grier puts her 'all' into the films she's working on. Some may be cheap and cheerful thrills like Foxy Brown but when that girl gets going she really knows how to put on a show.
The story may be simplistic but the entertainment is very real.
It's a exploit-tastic affair and Arrow Video won't leave you flat if you're new to the genre, they've got special features coming out the butt on this one, from the film right down to the exploitation genre, they've got it covered!