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Where anything can happen...and usually does! - Car Wash
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Title: Car Wash

Release Date: 22 Oct 1976

Runtime: 1h 37m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Universal Pictures

Production Companies: 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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Average Vote: 6 (109 votes)

Cast

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