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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.
Ivan Dixon
Lonnie
DeWayne Jessie
Lloyd
Bill Duke
Duane – Abdullah
Franklyn Ajaye
Theodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly)
Sully Boyar
Leon "Mr. B" Barrow
Melanie Mayron
Marsha
June Pointer
The Wilson Sister
Bonnie Pointer
The Wilson Sister
Anita Pointer
The Wilson Sister
Ruth Pointer
The Wilson Sister
Car Wash is a comedy, drama, romance film released in 1976 exploring themes of 1970s, musical, los angeles, california, labor, car wash, nostalgic. Directed by Michael Schultz, it stars Ivan Dixon, DeWayne Jessie, Bill Duke. 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.
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