Friday Foster

Friday Foster is a magazine photographer who is sent to Los Angeles International Airport to cover the arrival of Blake Tarr, a wealthy Black businessman. When gunmen open fire on Tarr, she captures the attack on film and is drawn into a conspiracy that reaches from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., involving a senator, the killing of a close friend and a covert plan known as "Black Widow." Teaming with private detective Colt Hawkins, she tries to stay alive while the people behind the plot pursue her and the photographs she took.

The film was directed by Arthur Marks, who also produced it from a screenplay by Orville H. Hampton. It was made by American International Pictures and released at the end of 1975, with a running time of about ninety minutes. Pam Grier plays Friday Foster, and Yaphet Kotto appears as Colt Hawkins. The credited cast of thirty includes Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Eartha Kitt and Jim Backus.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6 out of 10 from roughly three thousand votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.1 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. The two are close, indicating a generally consistent, modest reception across both audiences, with a far larger sample on IMDb.