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Car Wash (1976)

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Where anything can happen...and usually does!

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

Cast & Crew

Director
Michael Schultz
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    Lonnie Ivan Dixon
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    Lloyd DeWayne Jessie
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    Duane – Abdullah Bill Duke
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    Theodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly) Franklyn Ajaye
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    Leon "Mr. B" Barrow Sully Boyar
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    Marsha Melanie Mayron
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    The Wilson Sister June Pointer
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    The Wilson Sister Bonnie Pointer

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Keywords

  • 1970s
  • musical
  • los angeles, california
  • labor
  • car wash
  • nostalgic
  • black militant
  • day in a life
  • workplace comedy
  • in a day
  • black community
  • playful
  • ensemble cast