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    Car Wash (1976)

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    A close-knit group of black employees at a Los Angeles car wash have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt one day, including Daddy Rich, a money-hungry evangelist from the “Church of Divine Economics”, and a man who is mistaken as a mad bomber – but who is really simply carrying a urine sample to hospital.

    The film has hardly any plot to speak of, but with artists such as Rose Royce and the Pointer Sisters, this really is funky disco at it’s best.

    carwashThroughout the movie, the (many!) characters discuss love, religion, prostitution, parenthood, homosexuality, social climbing, money, class struggle, sex, and above all, music, which is their unifying element.

    There are especially strong performances from Antonio Fargas (better known as Huggy Bear in Starsky And Hutch) and comedian Franklyn Ajaye as ‘the Fly’, a wanna be super hero with a crush on a gorgeous, seemingly unattainable woman.

    Obviously, this is not an Oscar winner, but it is good fun, sometimes touching, and always entertaining from start to finish.

    It’s also a good look at LA in the 70’s. And, it’s one of the few movies where voice over narration actually works.

    Can you dig it? I knew that you could. Solid!

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    Lloyd
    DeWayne Jessie
    Hippo
    James Spinks
    Lindy
    Antonio Fargas
    The Wilson Sisters
    The Pointer Sisters
    Daddy Rich
    Richard Pryor
    Taxi driver
    George Carlin
    Snapper
    Clarence Muse
    T.C.
    Franklyn Ajaye
    Mona
    Tracy Reed
    Duane
    Bill Duke
    Lonnie
    Ivan Dixon
    Goody
    Henry Kingi
    Chuco
    Pepe Serna
    Geronimo
    Ray Vitte
    Scruggs
    Jack Kehoe
    Slide
    Garrett Morris
    Justin
    Leon Pinkney
    Loretta
    Ren Woods
    Earl
    Leonard Jackson
    Mr B
    Sully Boyar
    Mad Bomber
    Irwin Corey
    Irwin
    Richard Brestoff
    Marsha
    Melanie Mayron
    Charlie
    Arthur French
    Calvin
    Michael Fennell
    Charlene
    Antonie Becker
    Lonnie’s son
    Erin Blunt
    Sonny Fredericks
    Antar Mubarak
    Otis
    Otis Sistrunk
    Ken
    Tim Thomerson

    Director
    Michael Schultz

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