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- Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life.
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Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.
Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life.
Super Fly: Directed by Gordon Parks Jr.. With Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris. The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Gordon Parks Jr.
- 1972-08-04
Aug 4, 2022 · The movie's gritty, authentic depiction of street life and its flamboyant lead character created archetypes that have inspired legions of future storytellers and musicians.
- Eric Deggans
Jun 13, 2018 · The best way to describe why "SuperFly" doesn't surpass Gordon Parks Jr.'s creation is to describe Director X's take on the original's infamous cocaine montage. Ron O'Neal objected to this sequence of people enjoying Priest's product, saying it was "a commercial for cocaine."
Working with his reluctant friend, Eddie, Priest devises a scheme that will allow him to make a big deal and then retire. When a desperate street dealer informs the police of Priest’s activities, Priest is forced into an uncomfortable arrangement with corrupt narcotics officers.
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Jun 12, 2018 · Directed by Gordon Parks Jr., whose father had helped usher in the blaxploitation era by directing “Shaft” the year before, the movie told the sad, biting story of Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal),...
