on the heel of the well receive and beloved come of age film classic and concern the life of teenager a they head into adulthood and george lucas american graffiti and we have cooley high . an adaptation of sort by one eric monte and co creator of the popular 1970 cbs sitcom good time . cooley high be and and be and view a a black version of american graffiti . instead of central california and a in american graffiti and we have the black slum of chicago cabrini green a the backdrop for the story here . instead of america in 1962 cooley high be situate in 1964. the movie star welcome back kotter and lawrence hilton jacob and glynn turman a the movie main protagonist and it main character . it have garrett morris play the principal who try to keep jacob and turman character and name coceise and preach and out of trouble a great deal of the time . you know and i would like to say that cooley high be a worthy comparison piece to american graffiti or that it be a great film on it own but i can not . the problem lie with the fact that the producer of the film couldn not or wouldn not hide the sad underside of black life in america . have the film in the cabrini green part of chicago doesn not help thing . neither do the crass gross attempt at humor here . when coceise be look for a letter of intent from a college he find his little brother have throw down a toilet . when the gang visit the chicago zoo and one of the gang name pooter and have manure throw on him by an ape . when the turman character and preach and be be chase by two hoodlum in the school hangout ( a dirty and depress place to eat food in much less meet people at ) and he open the door of the girl bathroom while a girl be relieve herself a he escape through the window of the same bathroom . the high school and the home of the character and the bathroom and just about everywhere in the film display the unfortunate look of urban decay and poverty . if that wasn not enough there be the rough display of humor in the film . the use of violence and profanity in the film . cooley high may be an come of age film and but it be a hard and rough coming of age film with little or none of the wit and liking of the use of nostalgia that make people like and appreciate american graffiti so much . motown record have a hand in make the film . the company music be part of the film soundtrack . but even here you get a sense of same old same old a one have hear these song before a million time over . not that they weren not great song within themselves but black music and of that time period be more than just motown . especially in chicago . the song near the end of the movie and by the spinner g. c. cameron and be not all that impressive . there have be well motown ballad that have be do and by good motown artist than cameron without question . the last part of the film show where the character go to pay homage to the film cooley high aim to be and american graffiti . it show that preach and an intelligent but underachieving student go to hollywood and become a successful television writer . eric monte may have pattern himself a turman character . the last shot of film show preach run away from coceise funeral and hold on a dark rainy afternoon and and all the bleakness that cooley high come to represent . eric monte and through preach and that final scene and have one little lesson for all of u when watch cooley high and for the love of the past . don not look back .