Fresh
Highly enjoyable.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Car Wash
Where anything can happen...and usually does!
1976 · 1h 37m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Michael Schultz
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Car Wash
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Schultz Director
- Ivan Dixon as Lonnie
- DeWayne Jessie as Lloyd (as De Wayne Jessie)
- Bill Duke as Duane – Abdullah
- Franklyn Ajaye as Theodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly)
- The Pointer Sisters as The Wilson Sisters
- Sully Boyar as Leon "Mr. B" Barrow
- Melanie Mayron as Marsha
- June Pointer as The Wilson Sister
- Bonnie Pointer as The Wilson Sister
- Anita Pointer Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Uses gritty humor to polish clean the souls of a lot of likeable street people.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A cheerful, somewhat vulgar, very cleverly executed comedy...
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
The screenplay and the direction juggle the characters so adroitly, this is almost a wash-and-wax M*A*S*H.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Critics seemed to like this less than audiences; personally, I had a ball.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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