Product Details

• Actors: Pam Grier, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Gina Grier-Townsie, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton
• Directors: Tiffany McLinn Lore
• Producers: Tiffany McLinn Lore, Kenny Golde, Leslie Greif
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• VHS Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1575239906
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #496,885 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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This biography of the woman The New Yorker called "the sex goddess of the '70s" is also an examination of modern black history. Grier was known as the queen of blaxploitation film, the term Variety coined for the violent B movies that cast blacks in stereotypical roles. Quentin Tarantino, a big fan, provides excellent commentary on her career and helps give an education in the subgenre, as scenes from Coffy, which made her a star in 1973, Foxy Brown, and other disturbingly violent films are shown. Eventually, she crosses over to the mainstream, playing a drugged-out hooker--a role she won acclaim for--in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981) with Paul Newman. Grier comes off as smart and well spoken, someone who could star in cheap exploitation films and somehow be seen as a heroine for doing so. --Valerie J. Nelson

Customer Reviews

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pam be da bomb!!!!!, February 26, 2002

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Johny Bottom "Insane and lonely guitarist" (Jacksonville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intimate Portrait: Pam Grier [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Not only is Pam a perfect example of what women should look like, she reeks of class. This fine thing is every man's dream come true. If all women aged this well, then every grandmother would look like Pam Grier or Raquel Welsch. Rock on Pam.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this tape NEW only !!, July 19, 2005

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Leathione Diakite Prinze Jr. "The True Prince... (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intimate Portrait: Pam Grier [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This tape is quite informative,And althought it leaves you wanting to know more about Pam Grier, it's worth having it in your Pam Grier movie collection! Let hope someone out there does a new updated an more in depth look at this amazing lady. She was the one who made me proud to have a large chest, and womenly curves at a young age! And she was the one who I could relate to at the movies at an age when blonde hair and blue eyes or very light skin and Euro features was out there in overload mode. To sum up PAM GRIER ROCKED AND KICK BUTT THEN AND SHE ROCKS AND KICKS BUTT NOW. SHE IS A REAL ACTRESS, PERHAPS SHE SHOULD GIVE LESSONS TO SOME OF THESE YOUNG ONES WHO FOR SOME REASON ARE GETTING RAVE REVIEWS FOR SHAMEFULLY BAD ACTING!!