Coffy

Coffy is a 1973 American action crime drama directed and written by Jack Hill. It follows a nurse in Los Angeles whose younger sister is harmed by tainted drugs. When the police do nothing, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Moving through the drug trade, she targets dealers, pimps and mobsters, working her way up toward the people behind the trade. The film stars Pam Grier as Coffy, alongside Robert DoQui, Sid Haig, Booker Bradshaw, William Elliott and Allan Arbus. It runs 90 minutes and was produced by American International Pictures with Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment International, with Buzz Feitshans and Robert Papazian as producers.

Coffy was released in June 1973 and followed several earlier Jack Hill films, including Pit Stop, The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. He went on to direct Foxy Brown the following year. The film made about 4 million dollars worldwide, a strong return for its production context.

Audience response has been solid: on IMDb it holds 6.8/10 from around 15,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.6/10 from roughly 319 votes. A critics' rating of 6.8/10 from 26 reviews places it in line with the audience scores.