Customer Reviews
Great buy, all the right reasons and a few more 
2008-09-01
I picked this up because I've always admired Pam Grier. For many years, even now one of the sexiest, most stunning women in films. This has always been my fav of her early films. Now that I own it I like it even better. The image and sound quality of the DVD are top-notch. Not blurred and scratchy like many films from the old American International library. The twenty five year old Pam takes your breath away in every scene. A big surprise for me was the commentary from director Jack Hill who like many film makers of the 70s came under harsh criticism for making the so called blaxplotation movies.(the films were accused of negatively portraying afro-americans,and targeting black audiences when they were largely produced, directed and written by whites.) Mr. Hill's informative comments gave me a new understanding of how and why these films were made and sold. Above all the wonderful acting and beautiful presence of Pam Grier makes this flick more then just a fond memory from my teenage days.
Foxy Brown Super Grit 2007-07-17
There's some real baddies who deserve everything they get in this blaxploitation classic and who better to dish it out than super foxy Pam Grier and friends. Not as fast paced and a bit uglier than say 'Coffy' but still well worth a look.
Pam Grier kicks butt again. 
2007-07-12
Pam is definitely hot and bad once again in this film title. She's taken down the mob along with some mean dudes. At the end, the white guy gets his pecker cut off with a big old 6 inch knife. And the way she gave his girlfriend that pickle jar with his anatomy in it was funny as hell. They really should have never killed Foxy's man and her brother. I'm really glad that Pam Grier's movies have finally been released on dvd where they belong.
extreme disappointment 
2007-05-12
I bought this one because I saw Coffy before, which is quite entertaining, but this one is an extreme bore. Display of martial art in Coffy is completely lacking here. The story is tediuos and lacklustre. I don"t want to say more.
The 70's First *ORIGINAL* Female Gangsta 2007-03-28
Pam Grier was one of the great female actresses back in the 70's.
She presents herself to us in her daring role "FOXY BROWN". The movie was very good. If you are a Pam Grier fan than you might want to check out Foxy Brown.
Pam Grier is hott 2007-03-09
Foxy Brown is a sexy black woman who seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters led by a kinky couple.
Genre: Feature Film Urban Action
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-JAN-2001
Media Type: DVD
Blaxploitation at its sexiest. 
2007-02-06
Foxy Brown is a decent film for its genre. Pam Grier, of course, is incredibly sexy showing off a great body and an interesting wardrobe. Some of the villain acting is terrible, though Tony Giorgio makes a great bad guy (see him as Palancio in 'Magnum Force'). I was a kid growing up in the 70s and am a big fan of this period movie. A rather short film that has no problem holding your interest.
It's not "Leave It To Beaver" 2007-01-16
This was my first real experience with a so-called Blaxploitation movie and I have to say I was incredibly impressed. A novice goes into this genre with several different expectations; e.g., a movie that is very degrading to blacks and women, has no positive message, and suffers from a lack of a sincere effort to provide good entertainment along with a quality production. Thankfully, these were proven to be misconceptions and Foxy Brown is a movie to be ranked with the best films in the history of cinema.
The first thing that struck me about this movie is the strong female lead of Foxy Brown played by Pam Grier. I had seen her in Tarantino's Jackie Brown and knew that his film was a nod to the Blaxploitation genre so I was expecting the same kind of vibe; however, I had a totally different experience and I believe Foxy Brown is easily the superior movie even though Grier's acting skills have improved over the years, as anybody's would. But going into the movie I thought Foxy would use sex as more of a weapon than sexuality, which was another misconception on my part. The sex scenes and limited nudity in this film were properly done and never seemed gratuitous. It was great to watch a film where the female controlled the situation using her head instead of her genitalia.
The messages in this film were excellent: drugs are depicted as something to be avoided and can lead to the destruction of lives and families, law enforcement officers and authority figures can't always be trusted, and the best way to improve your life is to take action, albeit a little extreme in this case, but Foxy found herself in an extreme situation. I would say the only scene in the movie that I thought was more than a little unfair was the scene in the lesbian bar.
The most gratifying thing about Foxy Brown, apart from the excellent score written by Willie Hutch, was the production. It's immediately obvious that these were people working on a limited budget yet they tried very hard to provide a quality production. Sure the acting is bad at times, the editing might not be perfect here and there, and the special effects were very basic, but on the whole you get a sense that the people involved with this film were trying to make the best movie they could and something that viewers would want to watch repeatedly and in that regard, at the very least, this film is a huge success.
Foxy Brown is an excellent contribution to cinema and should be placed among the best films that were considered to be the avante-garde at the time of their release.
Afro-fuelled 70's street drama 2006-12-29
Blaxploitation movies often get a bad rap from chin-stroking types who judge them against standard cinematic masterpieces like Citizen Kane etc. That's the problem with consensus - films are judged by a single yardstick instead of on their individual merits. Blaxploitation is one such genre which has suffered from this approach and is one that needs to be appreciated on its own terms. By that measure, Foxy Brown is an outstanding success - super-iconic Pam Grier plays her characteristic tough-black chick dispensing rough justice to all manner of low-lifes. Solid '70s production values, tight narrative, never slow or lagging and at the same time, a sound portrait of where Black America was at psychically in 1974.
As vicious a cauldron of street-life, violence and funky women's fashions as you could ever wish to see.
"I've got My black belt in barstools!" 2006-09-25
After seeing Jackie Brown a couple of weeks ago and loving it, I decided to see the other films Pam Grier had done in the past. `Foxy Brown' is the second blaxploitation classic that I saw of her (first being White Mama, Black Mama), and it just blew me away. Though the script is flawed, and has some unrealistic characters, this only adds to the fun, campy nature of the film. The opening sequence rivals those of the James Bond films.
`Foxy Brown' features a brilliant lead performance from the hypnotically attractive Pam Grier, whose federal agent boyfriend is gunned down, and who sets out to fight for revenge and justice where the System has failed her and at the same time is matched at every turn by Antonio 'Huggy Bear' Fargas as her no-good younger brother. The rest of the performances are variable, and the budgets of these things did tend to preclude brilliant method actors! Jack Hill's direction keeps things ticking over nicely and the screenplay swings wildly between shock-horror tactics, tongue-in-cheek theatricality and even the occasional stab at gut-level farce.
In short, it's all very entertaining stuff. Fans of `The Hills Have Eyes' will be interested to see a small supporting role for Russ Grieve (Bob Carter in the aforementioned Wes Craven classic) as a corrupt high-up with a naked redhead on his knee, and Bob Minor turns in a sympathetic performance as the Black Panthers-styled vigilante that is light years away from his banal turn in `Carnel Madness' as the stereotypical sex-crazed vaudeville black. The funky score is another bonus that doesn't hurt a bit.
Foxy Brown is a definite must-see. The camera is certainly in love with her. Definitely one of the best, and most enjoyable blaxploitation films I've seen thus far.
