Seventeen’ and ‘Cooley High’: No Easy A’s, but Powerful Lessons Michael Schultz’s “Cooley High” (1975) and Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines’s documentary “Seventeen” (1982) look at young Midwestern lives in the city and the suburbs. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/movies/homevideo/seventeen-and-cooley-high-no-easy-as-but-powerful-lessons.html