Synopsis
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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Cast
- Ivan DixonLonnie
- DeWayne JessieLloyd
- Bill DukeDuane – Abdullah
- Franklyn AjayeTheodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly)
- Sully BoyarLeon "Mr. B" Barrow
- Melanie MayronMarsha
- June PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Bonnie PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Anita PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Ruth PointerThe Wilson Sister
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The screenplay and the direction juggle the characters so adroitly, this is almost a wash-and-wax MASH. - 88
LarsenOnFilm
In its erratic narrative, random assortment of characters, and omnipresent soundtrack, Car Wash captures something perfectly: the rhythms of a working-class work day. - 80
Time Out
The remarkable thing is the way characters, jokes and meaning are dovetailed into a single rhythmic flow that makes the film look like TV's Laugh-In redesigned as a Minnelli musical. Highly enjoyable. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Low-key comedy detailing a day in the life of an L.A. car wash, featuring an ensemble cast of superb performers. - 75
Chicago Reader
Critics seemed to like this less than audiences; personally I had a ball. - 70
The New York Times
A cheerful, somewhat vulgar, very cleverly executed comedy about what goes on in a single 10-hour period in a Los Angeles car wash. - 70
Variety
Car Wash uses gritty humor to polish clean the souls of a lot of likeable street people. - 50
The New Yorker
A junk-food mixture of poetry, black anger, bathroom humor, and routines that have come through the sit-com mill.
