Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 01/13/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
An African-American man finds that leaving behind his life of crime is harder than he imagined in this groundbreaking
crime drama.
Priest (
Ron O'Neal) is a stylish and successful cocaine dealer who drives a fancy car, commands a small army of street salesmen, and lives a life of luxury. However,
Priest is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and one day he makes a proposal to his partner
Eddie (
Carl Lee) -- they take their 300,000-dollar savings, buy 30 kilos of cocaine, and use their street team to move it out in four months, leaving a million dollar profit for both
Priest and
Eddie, allowing them to get out of the business for good.
Eddie is wary but willing to go along, but
Scatter (
Julius Harris), a former dealer who set
Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As
Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings,
Fat Freddie (
Charles McGregor) is picked up by the police, and under violent interrogation,
Freddie tells the cops about
Priest's underground empire. When
Priest is confronted by the police, however, he learns they're less interested in putting him behind bars than in making him a partner. While
Superfly was a box-office smash and (along with
Shaft and
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song) one of the key films of the nascent
blaxploitation movement of the early '70s, it's best remembered today for the soundtrack composed and performed by
Curtis Mayfield, which included the hit songs
"Freddie's Dead," "Pusherman," and the title tune.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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