just a couple year earlier and pam grier star in coffey one of the best of the so called blaxploitation film . then and she make foxy brown a very similar film but still very watchable nonetheless . now and by 1975 and she be make lousy film like sheba baby and friday foster film that be just pale imitation of these early success . friday foster find ms. grier a a hot shot photographer for glance magazine . she get a lead on the arrival of some big wig and sneak onto the runway at the airport . however and she walk into an attempted assassination . after that and she pull into all kind of intrigue that never really score . too bad her character be more like a black barbie doll instead of the usual bad @ s she play in her good film . all her brashness be replace by high fashion clothing and a by the number plot that could have be a charlie angels plot seriously . now this film could have be a lot well . after all and it have a very good cast ( include carl weather and julius harris and yaphet kotto and godfrey cambridge . however and it all just seem so unreal and poorly write . pam with a camera instead of a gun just do not pack much entertainment punch . heck and you know it lame when instead of blow away bad guy weather and she shoot him with pepper spray . lame . and and when the evil assassins strike and they only choose method with the low probability of success . knife and runaway car that inexplicably miss the heroine and explode and gunman who can not hit anything make for one of the weak gang in film history . the only good hit ( and it be great almost worth see the film just for this one ) involve a phone booth and a huge truck but naturally this be aim only at a minor character and not ms. grier . if there be a reason to watch this movie and it so you can see the zombie fashion show about 25 minute into the film . it a high fashion show star a strange eartha kitt ( by her performance and i think she think she suppose to be catwoman ) . a she introduce the model and each come out in atrocious 70 dress and move about exactly like the undead a kitt purr like batman rival seriously . it be mean to be hot and but frankly it one of the funnier scene in a bad blaxploitation film you can find . another possible reason might be to see ted lange ( from love boat ) play a completely stereotypical 70 pimp . instead of mix drink and dispense wisdom and here he spout huggy bear like dialog that can not help but elicit laugh . i really wish he would act this way on love boat it would have be hysterical . or and perhaps people who hate godfrey cambridge would want to see it because this film couldn not help but sink his career . his mince homosexual routine be pretty embarrassing as well a awfully offensive when see today at least to some in the audience . others might just laugh at it lack of subtlety . a final reason to see the film be to witness the most amazing and warm winter in washington and dc history . i grow up there and be amaze to see all the tree be fill with green leaf and people be dress like it be may . i be there in 1975 but somehow miss out on this anomaly . my recall be that the temperature be in the 30 . like every other winter in this city . i also love the mountain in the outskirt of dc ( and no and i be not talk about the appalachian ) . strange how they look like the same one in los angeles . great continuity and huh . however and other than for laugh or curiosity or a hatred of mr. cambridge and i just can not see why you would want to see this until you have first see and enjoy good blaxploitation film . trust me you can do a lot good than this overly polish but bland film . you know this be a reaaallly lame film where mr. big turn out to be jim backus . so apparently thats how thurston howell iii get all that money .