Friday Foster (film)

Friday Foster
Film poster
Directed byArthur Marks
Screenplay byOrville Hampton
Story byArthur Marks
Based onFriday Foster
1970-1974 comic strip
by Jim Lawrence
Jorge Longarón
Produced byArthur Marks
StarringPam Grier
Yaphet Kotto
Godfrey Cambridge
Thalmus Rasulala
Ted Lange
Eartha Kitt
CinematographyHarry J. May
Edited byStanley Frazen
Music byBuddy Baker
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • December 25, 1975 (1975-12-25)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Friday Foster is a 1975 American blaxploitation film directed by Arthur Marks and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It is an adaptation of the 1970–74 syndicated newspaper comic strip of the same name, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón. This was Grier's final film with American International Pictures. The tagline on the film's poster is "Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!"