Car Wash

Car Wash

★ 6.0IMDb Score
Released:1976-10-22
Duration:97 min
Director:Michael Schultz
Actors:Ivan Dixon, DeWayne Jessie, Bill Duke, Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar
Production:Universal Pictures

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.

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